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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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engineers were forming hobby clubs to learn about the new machines. and Wang Laboratories failed to appreciate that insight about standards, and they suffered. The cost of performing a calculation on a PC dropped so much that it was often significantly cheaper to use a little machine than a mainframe. and Poughkeepsie, N.Y.,

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