IBM’s flagship product at the time, the IBM System/370 mainframe, was a closed & proprietary system composed of bespoke hardware and software sub-components developed in-house. Nobody foresaw that not only would it disrupt the computer industry, but it would give birth to a movement that would revolutionize countless other industries - from the financial industry to the film industry.įor the past 100 years, the 340,000-person company had supplied increasingly large, sophisticated, and expensive computer systems to enterprises. When a team of IBM engineers in Boca Raton, Florida, developed a personal computer (PC), it looked more like a side project than a serious endeavor.
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