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RetroGaming@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago

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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RetroGaming@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago

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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did anyone ever sue the capacitor plague manufacturers to recoup their costs?
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  I recall it being a Chinese company, and it was the year 2000, so no.

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