IBM PC在1981年发布后迅速席卷个人电脑市场,DEC、Apple、Tandy等巨头纷纷失守。DEC因CEO Ken Olsen轻视个人电脑、内部三个项目互相竞争、坚持全自产导致延期三年,投入9亿美元几乎血本无归。 Apple傲慢地登广告说"欢迎IBM,认真地",却忽视了VisiCalc已登陆IBM PC这一致命信号,最终被Lotus 1-2-3赶出商业市场。Tandy以为会有三个标准并存,结果被迫转向兼容IBM。
I enjoyed your post. I’ve covered this subject, though not as in depth, on my own blog. One anecdote from my own research really hit home the impact of Apple’s lobbying in California. In 1985, Broderb...
In reply to fredericmora. Thank you for pointing out those typos! They should be fixed now. That weird sentence must have been a note to self, I have no recollection of writing it, though!
In reply to Keith Palmer. Thank you for the story and the editorial notes. Both items should be fixed now. A lot of people involved in the early days of personal computing were also into amateur radi...
Brilliant chapter as per usual. Just an editorial note that the following appears twice in the text a few paragraphs apart: After a slow start relative to Commodore and Radio Shack, sales grew rapid...