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    #25: On PC Clones & The End of the Road for IBM’s Personal Computer Business

    January 6th, 2022 · 38 minutes

    IBM quickly lost control of the market it had helped create, going from industry-leader to quietly exiting the personal computer business in just a couple of decades.

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    Links and Show Notes

    I Think We're A Clone Now (OFFICIAL APPLE VIDEO) - YouTube
    "Phoenix Says Its BIOS May Foil IBM's Lawsuits"
    The rise of the clones - A comprehensive history of the PC | TechRadar
    Send in the Clones - CHM Revolution
    Columbia Data Produces Introduces the MPC 1600, the First IBM PC Compatible Computer : History of Information
    Columbia Data Ready to Launch Its First Public Stock Offering - The Washington Post
    Columbia Data Products
    Compaq and Hyperion - The First IBM Clones - The 8-Bit Guy on YouTube
    Memory lane: Remembering the Compaq Portable | ZDNet
    Dynalogic Hyperion computer
    HP-150 - Wikipedia
    How does the Kindle Touch touch screen work? - Quora
    The Tandy 1000 - The best MS-DOS computer in 1984 - The 8-Bit Guy on YouTube
    Rainbow 100 - Wikipedia
    Why did IBM abandon the PC? - Quora
    IBM sells PC group to Lenovo - CNET
    10 Years Later, Looking Back at the IBM-Lenovo PC Deal | PCMag
    Ex-IBM CEO revisits selling PC business - The Verge
    Stephen Hackett (@ismh) / Twitter
    Quinn Nelson (@SnazzyQ) / Twitter
    Cortex #123: 2022 Yearly Themes - Relay FM