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...Best of all, as far as customers are concerned, the computer companies have parlayed several recent technological breakthroughs into a passel of affordable, easy-to-use new machines that seem to be leaping through dealers' doors and into U.S. homes and offices. Says William Lempesis, an analyst with the Dataquest market-research firm: "There's been an upswing in the entire industry...
...competitiveness is a sign that the computer slump is history. From 1984 through 1986, worldwide unit sales of personal computers stayed virtually flat. But this year sales are expected to rise nearly 13%, as customers plunk down $35 billion to buy about 17 million machines, according to estimates from Dataquest. Slugging it out for many of those dollars are personal computing's Front Four: IBM (which had a 26% slice of last year's market), Apple (which had 8%), Tandy (5%) and Compaq (3%). The remaining 58% of the world market has been carved up by about 150 other firms...
...four in personal computing -- IBM, Apple, Compaq and Tandy -- logged first-quarter unit sales of PCs that were about 10% higher than last year's. Industry analysts expect the spurt to signal the start of a lasting recovery. The Dataquest market-research firm predicts that personal- computer unit sales will rise 14% for the year as revenues surge...
...standards. But customers no longer hold their breath for the latest gear with IBM's distinctive blue markings. Even though buyers knew for much of 1986 that IBM was readying the new line, "they needed new machines and were not going to wait around forever," says Bill Lempesis, a Dataquest analyst. While some settled for deeply discounted older IBM models, others turned to Tandy, Compaq and Apple...
...ones connecting the nation's 30 million computers in a vast maze of interlocking grids. America's infatuation with the electronic computer, a machine born and nurtured on these shores, is blossoming into a network love affair. Says Louise Herndon Wells, an analyst with the California research firm Dataquest: "We have more desktops wired together with information devices than any other country in the world...