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

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IBM lowered the PCjr's price, added functions, and tried to persuade dealers to promote it, to no avail. 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. Cortada was then head of a sales team at IBM's Nashville site.

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