I was an indirect beneficiary of IBM’s secret development of the PC in Florida.
IBM brought in my graduate school friends two-person company that was operating out of his garage to teach the IBM team about microprocessors. The IBM experience led to that company (Integrated Computer Systems, now Learning Tree International) becoming the leading company in the world providing short courses on high technology. During the 80’s I got to teach courses in image processing, graphics and networking all over the U.S., Canada and Europe for them.
Ed
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Interesting… IBM’s big miss on estimating the market reminds of another PC story. According to Stewart Alsop, Jr., IBM evaluated the 80386 chip for its personal computers and rejected it. The comment that sticks in my mind is, “It is not a personal computer chip; it’s designed for a mini-computer”. Therefore, the first 386-powered computer was from Compaq, who had the field pretty much to themselves for a while.
One of the OS/2 developers told me that OS/2 (a joint project with IBM) was developed almost on Compaqs.
—Barry
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