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A World Without the IBM PC

IBM never releases the PC or it fails in the market. What then? Would users today be better or worse off?

Erik Engheim
Lessons from History
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13 min readDec 19, 2020

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The original IBM PC released in 1981 with a staggering $1565 price tag, sporting a Intel 8088 running at 4.47 MHz and with a modest 16 KB of memory. What if IBM never released it?

Many attribute the ubiquity and affordability of home computing to the spectacular success of the PC and Microsoft.

My good old sparring partner Sergiy and me don’t agree on this. But that is part of the fun. So join…

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Erik Engheim
Lessons from History

Written by Erik Engheim

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Geek dad, living in Oslo, Norway with passion for UX, Julia programming, science, teaching, reading and writing.

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