And remember, they're the ones who loosed Micro$oft onto the world to wreck its decades of havac.
> From: Bill Rising <brising at Louisville.edu> > Reply-To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 10:47:22 -0500 > To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Subject: Re: MacGroup: IBM to exit the PC business > > On Dec 3, 2004, at 10:05, Rex Baldazo wrote: > >> IBM has put their entire PC business-laptops and desktops--up for sale: >> >> http://news.com.com/2100-1042_3-5475631.html >> >> They apparently can't figure out a way to make it consistently >> profitable so they're gonna sell. Amazing when you think about >> it--they >> started the whole PC thing after all. > > Oooh, careful there. Personal Computers were available from Apple > before the IBM PC came out... So IBM did start the IBM PC biz, by > definition, but didn't start the personal computer biz. > > Bill | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
