• zik@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    There’s a reason why no-one bought IBM PS/2s. They were horrible value for money.

    The real competition at the time was the thousands of other brands selling PCs. By that time IBM was plummeting in sales and other companies were selling most of the PCs. That’s where 95% of the market was.

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      14 days ago

      Certainly, but Apple was comparing itself to other computer companies with international reach, not to the white box PCs coming out of the Floppy Wizard store in the strip center.

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        14 days ago

        A lot of larger companies like Compaq etc. were making “respectable” PCs by then and selling them in big quantities in direct competition to IBM.