Michael Dell began his company by doing nothing more than assembling IBM personal computer knockoffs.
In 1982 Jabil went into high-tech with a contract to make add-on boards for the IBM Personal Computer unit in Boca Raton, Fla.
Lenovo bought International Business Machines' (IBM) personal computer business in 2005.
Specifically, he should at the way IBM created its personal computer.
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In a similar vein IBM will sell its personal computer business to China's Lenovo Group because IBM can make more money on things like consulting than on PCs.
He could have shelved his curiosity about the new thing called a microprocessor back in the 1970s, stayed at Reed College, and let IBM build the personal computer.
Intel's chip for IBM's breakthrough Personal Computer in 1981 contained 29, 000.
The big break came in 1980 when an agreement was signed to provide the operating system that became known as MS-DOS, for IBM's new personal computer.
Look what happened to IBM when it ceded the personal computer operating system to Microsoft and the processors to Intel, or when Microsoft allowed Apple and Google to dominate the mobile operating platform.
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In 2004, personal computer industry pioneer IBM decided to exit the PC business.
Before Apple and Compaq, Cook spent several years working in the personal computer division at IBM (NYSE: IBM).
Twenty-four years ago, when Jobs left Apple the first time, Apple was battling with IBM for control of the nascent personal computer business.
What IBM did when it decided to go into the personal computer business in 1980 was very similar to what you do every Saturday morning.
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In short, the United States cannot afford to view the proposed sale of the Tyco Global Network as it has too many similar fire-sales of sensitive American-owned assets in recent years (including, notably, IBM's transfer to Communist China of its personal computer division).
Lou Gerstner , who managed, after 15 years, to get IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people) back in personal computer just as the industry is going out.
By 1992, these personal computer rebels had put serious hurt on IBM, an army of white shirts once thought so formidable that only the U.S. Department of Justice could tame it.
The whole personal computer era can be seen as one giant triumph of dis-integration, as IBM's circuit-boards-to-boxes-to-software mainframe business gave way to the layered computer industry we see today: Intel making the electronics, Dell the boxes and Microsoft the software.
Third was the personal computer, introduced by Apple and others in the 1970s and made acceptable to business buyers by IBM in 1981.
Dell competes with personal computer manufacturers like Hewlett-Packard, Apple, Acer and Toshiba, and increasingly against IBM and others for IT services.
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