The IBM (I've Been Mulling) PC - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

9 May 2009

--- On Thu, 5/7/09, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:

...
  Actually, it wasn't the IBM PC, XT, AT or PS/2
that
 established the 
 market, but rather the proliferation of cheap far east
 clones.  A 
 Taiwanese "XT" couldn't be touched as far as bang for the
 buck. 
 Despite 10,000 s/w packages as of 1985-86? Up until that point, I don't remember
seeing too many anything but IBM's on desks wherever I looked. Even the public library
had a True Blue. Subsequent to that people started buying named clones, followed
eventually by cheaper clones, but I think that was mainly in the 286-386 era.