▲ 82 ▼ What Happened To IBM PCs? Why The Company Stopped Making Them (www.bgr.com) submitted 6 months ago by OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world 28 comments fedilink hide all child comments Y'all remember shareware Doom on an IBM 486DX? Welp, my back hurts!
[+] myrrh@ttrpg.network 8 points 6 months ago* (4 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] terabyterex@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (3 children) they were not "veryuch in the home pc market" they released the ps/1 to "reenter" the home market. the ps/2 was older. and never had a 486dx 2. th ps/1 had one 486dc2. so yes its possible but tjis article is about ibm losing the home market and they lost it by then, since the ps/1 was them trying one last time to "reeneter" it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [+] myrrh@ttrpg.network 3 points 6 months ago (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] terabyterex@lemmy.world -2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child) i looked it up. i was counting the 2168 as one model but i guess there were ten variations. but your answers dont seem real. you sound like a young person who didnt buy a pc. we didnt buy pcs from sears. are you using ai? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment load more comments (1 reply) [–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 point 6 months ago PS2 was also an extreme overreaction to the IBM cloning situation, with its various "safe guards" against unauthorized replicas that made it a bitch to work on/upgrade iirc. permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (-1 replies)
[–] terabyterex@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (3 children) they were not "veryuch in the home pc market" they released the ps/1 to "reenter" the home market. the ps/2 was older. and never had a 486dx 2. th ps/1 had one 486dc2. so yes its possible but tjis article is about ibm losing the home market and they lost it by then, since the ps/1 was them trying one last time to "reeneter" it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [+] myrrh@ttrpg.network 3 points 6 months ago (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] terabyterex@lemmy.world -2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child) i looked it up. i was counting the 2168 as one model but i guess there were ten variations. but your answers dont seem real. you sound like a young person who didnt buy a pc. we didnt buy pcs from sears. are you using ai? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment load more comments (1 reply) [–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 point 6 months ago PS2 was also an extreme overreaction to the IBM cloning situation, with its various "safe guards" against unauthorized replicas that made it a bitch to work on/upgrade iirc. permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (-1 replies)
[+] myrrh@ttrpg.network 3 points 6 months ago (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] terabyterex@lemmy.world -2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child) i looked it up. i was counting the 2168 as one model but i guess there were ten variations. but your answers dont seem real. you sound like a young person who didnt buy a pc. we didnt buy pcs from sears. are you using ai? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment load more comments (1 reply)
[–] terabyterex@lemmy.world -2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child) i looked it up. i was counting the 2168 as one model but i guess there were ten variations. but your answers dont seem real. you sound like a young person who didnt buy a pc. we didnt buy pcs from sears. are you using ai? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment load more comments (1 reply)
[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 point 6 months ago PS2 was also an extreme overreaction to the IBM cloning situation, with its various "safe guards" against unauthorized replicas that made it a bitch to work on/upgrade iirc. permalink fedilink source parent