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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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Pratik

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To add an intresting point here personal computers weren't in mainstream or used at homes till 80's. They were mostly being sold to school and businesses.it took time and lot of Marketing for home consumers to adapt to PC

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