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
The IBM PC had been on the market for three years by then, and many of IBM’s customers were clamoring for a more portable version of that PC.
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
