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- noun The original version and progenitor of the IBM PC
compatible hardwareplatform . - noun slightly dated A
microcomputer compatible with IBM'sspecification .
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Examples
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At home, my wife and children have a more powerful machine than my original IBM PC, which is all I truly need.
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I'm not sure I buy this: sure, the IBM PC was the first really big commercial success, and IBM's clout got it into businesses around the world, but in my mind that makes it more a tipping point than a starting line...
The Best of The Digital Download The Best Of The Digital Download 2006
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The IBM PC was the company standard because we wanted to offer training on a standard set of software and that was PC software.
CNET News.com 2009
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Apple II was a dying, closed-off system, while the IBM PC was the system that both businesses and consumers thought of when they thought of computers.
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Nevertheless, the clunky, cheaper, corporado IBM PC did more stuff and was cleaning the Mac's clock.
William Bradley: Steve Jobs: Hardly a Perfect Person, Perhaps a Perfect Icon William Bradley 2011
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But while the IBM PC became the industry standard in terms of computer architecture and was the first choice for desktop business computing, manufacturing PCs proved a bad long-term strategy for the company.
Former IBM CEO Dies Stephen Miller 2011
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On August 12, 1981, IBM introduced its first personalÂcomputerÂknown as the IBM PC.
Larry Magid: Happy 30th Anniversary IBM PC Larry Magid 2011
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To some, that may sound similar to the IBM PC and what Microsoft enabled in that market by producing MS-DOS.
iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Windows 8? A coder's guide 2011
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On August 12, 1981, IBM introduced its first personalcomputerknown as the IBM PC.
Larry Magid: Happy 30th Anniversary IBM PC Larry Magid 2011
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Nevertheless, the clunky, cheaper, corporado IBM PC did more stuff and was cleaning the Mac's clock.
William Bradley: Steve Jobs: Hardly a Perfect Person, Perhaps a Perfect Icon William Bradley 2011
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