Re: Apple, IBM and PCs (Re: Apple, Jobs, and the irony of it)

[Gregory Weston <gwestonREMOVE@CAPSattbi.com>]

In article <KO6dnfqUrf-hf3yiRVn-jg@comcast.com>,
 "Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote:

> : 2. IBM did target the home market. Several times. The first was
> : with the PCjr. What a success that was. The second was with the
> : PS/2 models 25 and 30. Third was with the PS/1 line of machines
> : (I bought one of those new,) then the Aptiva.
> 
> Again, those machines, short of the Jr, were ALL targetting
> the business market. I should know. I freaking used them,
> AT WORK.

And my company has a G3 iMac as a production machine, but that's not the 
market for which Apple built it, and it's not the market for which IBM 
built the PS/1 or the Aptiva. Those were _very_ distinctly aimed at the 
home user. The low-end PS/2 models always confused me. I couldn't 
imagine anyone wanting them (which is surreal since I knew people and 
companies that had them) and really have no idea who they were mean to 
sell to.


> : 2. IBM doesn't have 95% of the market. In fact, no computer
> : maker has even 33% of the personal computer market.
> 
> This should have been #3. DUH. Read again more closely.
> I said MS running on IBM compatibles.

Well, no. Strictly speaking, you didn't. "IBM and MS, who have acquired 
95% of the market..."

G