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...eight times the memory of a PCjr, a larger, easier-to-use keyboard and greatly improved graphics. On the same day IBM added a high-end $13,995 model to its much touted Personal System/2 series, the line of office gear introduced in April to replace the old IBM PCs...
...Akers and his lieutenants were the inroads being made in the office market by rival machines that can use IBM software -- the so-called IBM-compatibles such as those made by Tandy and Compaq. In response, IBM decided to make its Personal System/2 computers strikingly different from its original PCs. It did: the new models are more powerful and versatile. Their software, which will not run on the old machines, comes on 3.5-in. hard- case diskettes instead of the 5.25-in. floppy disk that had been IBM's standard...
...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...
Corporate customers have a new appreciation for the potential of the personal computer. Increasingly, they are stringing together networks of PCs and utilizing the equipment to the fullest. "Everybody has finally started figuring out how to use all these screens, keyboards and wires to their competitive advantage," says Analyst Jonathan Fram, of Bear Stearns...