On Jul 14, 2016, at 10:03 AM, Guy Sotomayor Jr <g...@shiresoft.com> wrote: > > IBM had looked at the PC market for a while. It was actually TJ Watson Jr > that instructed that a “skunk” team > be formed to see how quickly a PC with an IBM logo could be produced. He was > afraid of Apple making > inroads into IBM’s traditional markets and wanted to prevent that. It was > never envisioned to be a huge market > for these things…it was viewed only as a hobbyist thing that had the > potential to take away business from > IBM’s traditional machines.
And interestingly, these days IBM is a huge user of Macs… which these days use a derivative of the system architecture that IBM developed! -- Chris
