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Thanks. Shouldn't the clickbait headline to the longwinded article say "1980s"?

• jhbadger 9y ago
  No, because it isn't really talking about the actual IBM PC (which was decidedly not a cheap commodity or modular to any real degree), but the PC clones of the 1990s which were. Although to argue with the article, while cheap and modular PCs were great for the consumer, they weren't great for the producers, ultimately leading to IBM itself exiting the PC market due to low margins. So I doubt Tesla et al, want to go down that route.