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

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On 12 August 1981, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in midtown Manhattan, IBM unveiled the company's entrant into the nascent personal computer market: the IBM PC. The personal computer vastly expanded the number of people and organizations that used computers. Other companies, including Apple and Tandy Corp. and Poughkeepsie, N.Y.,

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I bought Harley’s new electric motorcycle. Delivery was a hot mess, but still awesome

Baua Electric

It would take nearly five years from the first prototype rolling out in 2014 until the bike began deliveries in 2019 , but the resulting Harley-Davidson LiveWire was widely regarded as an impressive and high-performance electric motorcycle. It also carried an equally high price tag of nearly $30k.