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IBM, which gave legitimacy to the personal computer business in the 1980s, is said to be negotiating the sale of its PC unit in a move that could reshape the industry.
Margaret Warner discusses IBM's sale of its personal computer business to one of China's top PC makers with a technology expert and a China analyst.
We talk to IBM about the development of the Personal Computer 5150 in 1981, and dismantle the very first PC to see what makes it tick.
Andrew D. MagerWeb AssistantIBM said in a public announcement Friday, it would pull out of the personal computer business that it founded in 1911. The company is discussing a sale ...
Ending nearly a week of speculation, IBM has reached an agreement to sell its personal computer business to Chinese PC maker Lenovo for US$1.25 billion in cash, a deal that calls for Big Blue to ...
August 12, 2002 From bits to boom: IBM PC turns 20 special coverage IBM wasn't the first company to sell a personal computer when it introduced the 5150 in August 1981.
IBM tests transformer computer It's a handheld. No, a notebook. No, a desktop. The 9-ounce core of IBM's Meta Pad will contain just a hard drive and will slip into the body of a notebook or desktop.
IBM’s announcement lays out a remarkably concrete roadmap to deliver Starling, the first large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer, by 2029. Housed in a new IBM Quantu ...
IBM's decision to sell its PC business to Lenovo underscores the fact that most companies cannot generate steady profits selling PCs Perhaps it isn’t quite as surprising as if Ford Motor Co ...
My girlfriends family computer, an IBM Aptiva E series 240, is in good need of an upgrade. I would like to replace it's 350MHz K6-2 with a 533MHz one, upgrade its RAM from 64 to at least 128MB ...
Larry Magid: It's been 40 years since I wrote a manual for IBM's first PC. These days, software manuals are an endangered species as is boxed software itself.