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- From: barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett)
- Subject: IBM Develops PC Product in 14 weeks
- Message-ID: <BxvyqF.7MA@news.iastate.edu>
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 00:30:13 GMT
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- [The following is from USA TODAY, 11/17/92]
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- If you think IBM won't be venturing into personal communications, think
- again.
-
- [At Comdex] IBM showed a prototype device that features an on-screen keypad
- and runs on MS-DOS. Weighing just 16 ounces, the PS/2 personal communicator
- is run by a secret IBM chip that has the power of the first PCs IBM made in
- the early 1980s. [I know that isn't saying much. - MB] But it also functions
- as a cellular phone, fax machine, and PC. It can't run Lotus 1-2-3 yet, but
- it can send and receive files via a cellular radio link.
-
- What's even more remarkable, considering all the flak that IBM has taken
- lately over its slow response to new technology, is that Big Blue developed
- the unit in just 14 weeks at its Boca Raton, Fla., facility.
-
- - USA TODAY, 11/17/92
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-
- [End of quoted article]
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-
- Commodore can't even develop a screen blanker in 14 weeks! Now that IBM
- has improved their ability to respond to technological changes in the computer
- industry, Commodore has now become by far the slowest company in the computer
- industry in this respect. IBM has reduced their response time to industry
- announcements to hours in some cases. When Compaq announced cuts in the list
- prices of their systems, for instance, IBM responded by reducing the list
- prices of their PS/ValuePoint systems within the same hour.
-
- By comparison, Commodore's response time can almost be measured in decades.
- Commodore responded to Apple's announcement of the Mac II by shipping a system
- with almost exactly the same capbilities five years later. And Commodore
- responded to the standardization of high-density floppy drives in the computer
- industry by finally adopting them on Amiga systems over four years after IBM,
- Apple, and every other company in the industry made HD floppies standard on
- nearly all systems. Commodore still has not developed any CD-ROM drives for
- their A2000, A3000, and A4000 systems, and still has not developed any
- notebook Amigas to penetrate the exploding notebook PC market. Commodore can
- probably be expected to ship these products on the fourth or fifth anniversary
- of the availability of these products by other companies.
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- | Marc Barrett -MB- | email: barrett@iastate.edu
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