14 Jul
2016
14 Jul
'16
6:47 p.m.
On Jul 14, 2016, at 10:03 AM, Guy Sotomayor Jr <ggs at shiresoft.com> wrote:
IBM had looked at the PC market for a while. It was actually TJ Watson Jr that
instructed that a ?skunk? team
be formed to see how quickly a PC with an IBM logo could be produced. He was afraid of
Apple making
inroads into IBM?s traditional markets and wanted to prevent that. It was never
envisioned to be a huge market
for these things?it was viewed only as a hobbyist thing that had the potential to take
away business from
IBM?s traditional machines.
And interestingly, these days IBM is a huge user of Macs? which these days use a
derivative of the system architecture that IBM developed!
-- Chris