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Episode 105 - Apple's Growing Pains

Advent of Computing

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The Three: What Users Really Get Out of Their Computer

IBM launched the PC on August 21, 1981 with a list of launch day software. A computer on its own isn't useful; you need software to back that up. IBM really did it right as soon as the PC was on shelves,. You could go down and buy a PC with all the fixings and all the software you needed. No one ever got fired for buying IBM because frankly, they soldyou a solution.

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