Talk:Timeline of computing 1980-1989
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Regarding the IBM PC: "The machines success was largely due to the openness of its specification, anyone could produce new and improved parts or models of the computer"
Not sure that can be stated as a fact. The original IBM PC was a success with or without clones, probably because it was from IBM and therefore "serious", business oriented with relatively high-resolution text display, and had some important business software. It was a couple years before the clones could take off. Not just anyone could reproduce models: first they had to (legally) reverse engineer IBM's BIOS. Tigen 09:44, 20 April 2006 (UTC)