IBM PC

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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

I’ve had a front-row seat for Lenovo’s evolution, letting me see up close how it used the integration of the IBM PC business to become one of the major tech companies in the world.

From Time • May 4, 2015

Joe plans to set up a legally sound process for reverse engineering the IBM PC by creating what lawyers call a “clean room.”

From New York Times • Jun. 1, 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