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I like how "Doesn't Look Like IBM" was a feature on the clone PC ad on the last page.
by Bluecobra 9y ago
I like how "Doesn't Look Like IBM" was a feature on the clone PC ad on the last page.
- marcosdumay 9y agoIt would be interesting to look deeper into IBM's move from "nobody gets fired by buying it" to a poisonous brand.
- pgeorgi 9y agoBack then, IBM was still deep in "nobody gets fired for buying them" territory. It was just the ad style of the day. The same edition of Byte magazine had an Oracle ad that was full of DBase IV references (copies of negative articles about it, mostly) with only a small Oracle logo somewhere near the end. Also stuff like https://78.media.tumblr.com/1fb5edc62a27f8f1c8ef07e611ec4281/tumblr_owhrbtaPvc1u8gbuwo1_1280.jpg https://78.media.tumblr.com/1fb5edc62a27f8f1c8ef07e611ec4281...