Word: pcs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tandy, the deal is recognition that its IBM-compatible machines, which command an estimated 23% of the American market for PCs, are considered among the industry's most reliable and user-friendly. And the arrangement will provide a regained U.S. foothold for Matsushita, which had pulled its made-in- Japan computers from the American market in April 1987 because Washington had imposed tariffs on some kinds of imported PCs. Matsushita hopes eventually to market Tandy's computers overseas as well...
...publicity has triggered a certain amount of hysteria. Systems managers have imposed elaborate quarantines on their companies' machines. Computer columnists have advised readers to put their PCs under lock and key and, in one radical proposal, to disconnect their machines permanently from all data networks and telephone lines. Data-processing managers have rushed to stock up on antiviral programs. "We're seeing panic buying by those who have already been hit," says William Agne, president of ComNetco, which publishes Viru- Safe. When a virus showed up at the University of Delaware, the assistant manager of academic computing services immediately bought...
...clones; the company even began demanding a 5% licensing fee from companies that sought to copy the PS/2. But the Micro Channel has proved too distinctive for its own good. Because it does not fully mesh with the old PC standard, the 34.8 million users of the original IBM PCs and IBM-compatible machines cannot use their peripheral equipment with the new PS/2 computers...
...behind its rivals in growth. While competitors are expected to sell 11.6 million machines this year, 26% more than in 1987, IBM's unit sales are likely to grow 18%. Even though minicomputers and mainframes account for the bulk of IBM's total revenues ($54.2 billion in 1987) and PCs for only 10%, the desktop market has become a high-prestige field of competition...
...with the old standard but faster and more powerful. However, the Gang of Nine has not yet finished designing its new circuitry, and is not expected to bring any products on the market for at least a year. Says William Lowe, head of the IBM unit that produces its PCs: "All they're showing now is a set of charts...