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From: Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: IBM first computer company (was Re: OS/2 Anyone?)
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Date: 16 Jun 88 11:14:49 GMT
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In article <78@uisc1.UUCP>, adf@uisc1.UUCP (Andre Franklin) writes:
} Let's face it, IBM (or at least it's end-user
}oriented side) stopped being state of the art when the second computer
}company entered the market.

Except that IBM wasn't the first company to enter the computer business.  When
UNIVAC sold its first computer, IBM initially decided that it wasn't worth 
designing a computer because the prediction was that three to five such 
systems would be enough for the entire country!

IBM's equipment has never pushed the state of the art--years after all other 
manufacturers had switched to transistors, IBM introduced a vacuum tube 
system.
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