IBM PC
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What would the computer market look like today without the IBM PC?
From Time ● May 3, 2016
The future that he predicted started to arrive in the 1970s and 1980s, with the advent of microprocessor-equipped consumer products such as the Hewlett Packard hand calculators, the Apple II computer and the IBM PC.
From Nature ● Feb. 8, 2016
This attention to design and the user’s experience of it had never been done by a computer company before—computers were put in beige boxes that were functional but ugly, like the IBM PC.
From Forbes ● May 27, 2015
In 1982 it introduced its first computer, the Compaq Portable, an IBM PC clone that used off-the-shelf parts and another reverse-engineered BIOS.
From The Verge ● Jun. 9, 2014
Netscape’s first commercial browser—which could work on an IBM PC, an Apple Macintosh, or a Unix computer—was released in December 1994, and within a year it completely dominated the market.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
