<div dir="ltr">Hard to believe but in August 1981 IBM introduced its PC and along came all those Charlie Chaplin advertisements.  The IEEE just published a short history of the PC extracted from my history book, <i>IBM.  </i>I thought it might be of some interest to my fellow colleagues in SIGCIS.  <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/silicon-revolution/how-the-ibm-pc-won-then-lost-the-personal-computer-market">https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/silicon-revolution/how-the-ibm-pc-won-then-lost-the-personal-computer-market</a><div><br></div><div>Jim Cortada<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>James W. Cortada</div><div>Senior Research Fellow</div>
<div>Charles Babbage Institute</div><div>University of Minnesota</div>
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