Word: ibm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...IBM, whose decision to allow other manufacturers to copy its PCs made economic giants out of Microsoft and Intel, could become a clone maker itself. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Apple chairman A.C. Markkula said his company has asked IBM to make computers that use the Macintosh operating system. "The IBM name on a computer still means something to a lot of people, especially corporate buyers," says technology correspondent David Jackson. "A machine that would run the Mac O/S with the IBM label is viewed by most analysts as a great combination." IBM officials did not immediately...
...addition to the copying services of Kinko's old location, the new store offers oversize copying, dry-mounting, self service scanning, passport photos, a paper center, five IBM computers, computer design stations and new binding options, Ferrara said...
Overnight Minnesota will be transformed from corn belt to money belt. Gigantic glass skyscrapers will rise in downtown St. Paul, home of the nation's wealthiest state legislature, and as the money floods in, Minnesotans will look for acquisitions: IBM, UPS, USX, GTE, Time Warner, Minnecorp, J.P. Olson, Chase Minnesota. Presidential candidates will hold their big, $100,000-a-plate fund raisers in Minneapolis, will pledge their support for water diversification and mention that, conservative though they be, they've always had a soft spot in their hearts for Hubert Humphrey...
...past year on the World Wide Web, the hot new multimedia hangout on the Internet. With edgy graphics and clever first-person writing, webzines are attracting a small but fiercely loyal readership. They are also starting to attract something even more important: good old-fashioned advertising. Saab, IBM, MasterCard and clear-beer Zima are among the sponsors whose winking logos bedizen every screenful of Word. And the stimulus of these ad dollars has encouraged even more publishers to come online...
TheWindows 95 juggernauthas proved too strong for IBM, the last holdout among personal computer manufacturers. After swearing that it would stand by its flailing OS/2 computer operating system, IBM announced that it would include the new Microsoft operating system with some of its PCs. "It took IBM a while, but it was almost inevitable that they would eventually offer Windows 95, too,"TIME's David Jacksonreports from Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington, where IBM executives attended a launch party for the software. "Any personal computer maker not offering this product is going to have a tough time, at least...