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Today I Learned TIL#8 IBM's Foolishness In the 1970s, a team of engineers at IBM proposed developing a personal computer for individual use. However, the company's executives dismissed the idea, believing that there was no significant market for com

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The personal computer is one of those technologies that seems so obvious and ubiquitous now, but at the time represented a huge paradigm shift that even the biggest tech companies failed to anticipate. Pretty crazy when you think about it.

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