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Just weeks into the first year that IBM personal computers (PCs) have been strongly recommended for first-year Business School students, about 10 percent of the machines sold by the B-School have been sent to the shop for repairs...

Author: By Charles C. Matthews, | Title: B-School Computers Sent Back For Repairs | 10/4/1984 | See Source »

...Rainbow and IBM PC are similar, but the PCs sell better primarily because they carry the more popular IBM name, salesmen...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Harvard, IBM Offering Cheap New Computers | 9/10/1984 | See Source »

When IBM introduced its first personal computer about three years ago, it rented a suite in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria for a low-key presentation to a few hundred industry specialists and the press. Since then, nearly 1 million PCs have been sold, and the machine has become the recognized industry standard. So when the computer's third birthday came around last week, IBM took over the 1,620-room Loews Anatole Hotel in Dallas and invited 2,400 dealers, software publishers and industry consultants to show off its new personal computer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: A Giant Flexes Its Muscles | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

...Pcs Pennsylvania 2-0 1.000 Brown 3-1 .750 Dartmoath 2-2 .500 HARDVARD 2-2 .500 Yale 2-2 .500 Columbia 1-2 .333 Cornell 1-2 .333 Princeton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ivy Men's Basketball Startings | 1/27/1984 | See Source »

...when it unveiled its first Personal Computer, or PC, IBM has claimed a pacesetting 28% of the market for machines costing between $1,000 and $5,000. The PC, intended mainly for office use, is costlier and more powerful than a home computer. Last year IBM sold 185,000 PCs. This year sales are expected to reach some 800,000. Runner-up Apple, once the leader in small machines, this year will have sales of about 600,000, and now has approximately 17% of the market. Says one IBM executive: "The reason there is so much excitement about the introduction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: D-Day for the Home Computer | 11/7/1983 | See Source »

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