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What Happened To IBM PCs? Why The Company Stopped Making Them

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What Happened To IBM PCs? Why The Company Stopped Making Them

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What Happened To IBM PCs? Why The Company Stopped Making Them - BGR

IBM's PC division floundered for years after the PCjr proved too expensive and its new OS was nothing compared to Windows, allowing Lenovo to buy IBM in 2004.

Y’all remember shareware Doom on an IBM 486DX?

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Or “clone”

Lots of early PCs were termed “IBM clones”.
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