Apple’s financial results bear a disturbing similarity to IBM’s near-collapse in the 1980s – which doesn’t bode well for Apple. The shift from growing the customer base to mining existing ...

Microsoft is about to lose the software business the same way that IBM lost the PC business in the 1980s. Now, for those of you who didn't live through it, a quick refresher: In the 1980s, it wasn ...

Back in the '80s and '90s, the IBM 3390 DASD was the pinnacle of reliable, online (as opposed to offline tapes) storage. EEVblog's hard drive was sourced from a bank, where it would've stored ...

Microsoft is trying to bring back the '80s with its Windows 10 strategy. 2016-03-06T14:43:38Z ... The IBM PC came out in 1981 and soon became a smash hit, surpassing the leading Apple II.

Apple didn't deliver a strong follow-up until it released the Macintosh in 1984. By then it was too late. While Apple struggled to deliver a follow up computer, IBM desperate to break into the ...

Lotus was purchased by IBM in 1995, but the software had already lost too much ground. IBM officially killed off Lotus 1-2-3 in 2013. CNNMoney (New York) First published March 28, 2016: 6:20 PM ET ...

IBM, Apple, and the Commodore 64 ushered the personal PC into our lives. ... Here are seven of the '80s mightiest flops that commentators of the day dared to call revolutionary.

He was chief engineer of the 12-person team that designed the original IBM PC in the early '80s, earning him three of the nine original patents for that device.

But IBM’s ’80s keyboard didn’t use modern mechanical switches. It used buckling springs over a membrane sheet that made keys feel heavier to push than the keys on the preceding Model F ...

Somewhere in there he also bought an IBM PC AT clone computer, an IBM PS/2, and a Toshiba T-1000. Phew. As a result, I grew up around a bunch of different computer systems.

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publications will produce Peanut, a magazine for owners of IBM PCjr computers, in Duluth. The first issue will be about 300 pages, the company's executive vice president ...

Three times a week, Hank Van Parys, 94, heads to the YMCA in Kingston, N.Y., where he leads a cardiovascular fitness class. Van Parys joined the group back in 1980 when IBM, where he worked as a ...