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Announcer:

Ibm's personal computer Is designed for office, school, or home use.

It's aimed at exactly the same market as its competitors.

It's expected to be sold very aggressively.

Rod canion:

And the race was on. This was going to cause that market to explode.

Tom brokaw:

Sales of personal computers Are so hot this christmas, santa claus may have to replace His reindeer with microchips.

Announcer:

850,000 people bought home computers In the United States last year.

The industry expects, this year, more than 3 million will.

Announcer:

We're no longer on the verge Of the personal computer revolution, We're right in the midst of it with more and more people Jumping aboard every day.

Jim harris:

Osborne was being very successful With an extraordinarily ugly portable.

And rod had purchased the ibm pc, So he could write business plans on it, And it became obvious to him that that pc, If it was portable, that would be a good product.

What popped in my head was, well, If we could take this idea for a portable, And we could make it run the software that Was written for the ibm pc, ooh, that's when The chill went down my spine.

It's like, oh, man, would that sell.

Welcome to the computer chronicles.

I'm stewart cheifet and this is gary kildall.

And, gary, our subject today is ibm and the dominant role They play in the computer world in general And the pc world in particular.

Matter of fact, they've taken over the phrase pc.

It doesn't mean personal computer anymore, It means an ibm personal computer.

Ibm has always had this mentality that it Is the king of the world.

What do you think would be the biggest threat to ibm's Position in this situation?

Well, I don't think that anything is really A threat to the ibm position, and I Don't anticipate that they will begin to decline.

Ibm didn't care.

If you weren't xerox, if you didn't have that massive, new York, type presence that loomed over the entire country, You didn't matter.

Rod canion:

We weren't really good at writing business plans, But we knew that the way a product looked Was important to people.

Jim harris:

Ted papa john was an industrial designer, And we got him, and we drove over to the house of pies For two things.

One, a piece of pie, and the other Was to convey to ted our ideals for what The unit may look like.