Word: pcs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...industry's fortunes first flagged in 1984, when many corporate customers who had bought PCs began to find they were too difficult to use and too limited in their applications to be practical. Millions of the machines had become little more than expensive paperweights. But over the past year advanced technology has begun to turn things around. Faster, easier-to-use models came to the market, and more are on the way. Just as important, innovative software for old and new machines has made personal computers more versatile. It is now possible to turn out printshop-quality graphics -- and design...
...PS/2 will be struck by the improved keyboard, the smaller system box and the disk drives (3 1/2-in. microfloppies rather than the original 5 1/4-in. disks). Although the new models can handle most of the old PC programs, software written for the PS/2s will not run on the PCs, which could doom the older machines to obsolescence...
Once again, the Office of Information Technology, home of several laserwriters, Macintoshes and IBM PCs (previously called term paper heaven) comes to the rescue. The OIT program and book library is located on the second floor of OIT's 1730 Cambridge Street headquarters...
Software can be used on the IBM PC or Macintosh in the library, or on one of the eight Macs or two PCs in the first-floor computer room...