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It was hard for an Apple ][ to compete with an IBM mainframe at enterprise data processing, but the power of personal ownership & commodity economics was disrup
by twoodfin 6mo ago
It was hard for an Apple ][ to compete with an IBM mainframe at enterprise data processing, but the power of personal ownership & commodity economics was disruptive enough that 30 years later 99%+ of enterprise data processing was taking place on descendants of the original personal computers.