From: www.itworld.com

IBM: The end of an era

December 13, 2004 —

 

Welcome Lenovo. Seriously.

December 9, 2004

Perhaps you remember August 12, 1981. It was the day IBM launched a computer it matter-of-factly called the model 5150. Yet this announcement actually constituted news. This debut was visible to at least one other company: Two weeks later, this other company, with the silly name Apple, took out a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal that read "Welcome IBM. Seriously." Incredibly smug or monumentally na