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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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To be fair, in the 70s computers were still these huge, expensive machines. The idea of a personal, affordable home computer probably did seem far-fetched to IBM at the time. Still a massive blunder though.

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