A hot seller, that was. Wikipedia says: > Reasons cited for the failure of the System 9000 were its poor performance and high price, which led to the IBM PC be

A hot seller, that was. Wikipedia says: > Reasons cited for the failure of the System 9000 were its poor performance and high price, which led to the IBM PC being used where price was of concern, and to other 32-bit microcomputers being used where performance mattered.[10] IBM closed its Instrument division in January 1987, reassigning the approximately 150 employees that had worked for it to other positions. 150 employees? they'd use that many people to give names to the broom closets.