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Lu2025 | 5 months ago

> I don’t think that culturally IBM ever really felt that the PC was a true IBM product

This makes perfect sense. In the early 2010s I worked with what remained of IBM development and was surprised at the dysfunction, complete lack of manufacturing culture and engineering approaches. I couldn't believe that this culture could produce a successful product. Guess what, it actually didn't.

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leoc|5 months ago

IBM wasn’t that hopeless, at least not so early. It produced some fairly successful and well-regarded products in the ‘80s and ‘90s like the POWER architecture, the AS/400, and updates to its mainframe line.

wpm|5 months ago

I’m sure the IBM of the 2010s bore little resemblance to the engineering culture that gave them the reputation that made the 5150 as important as it was.

thedougd|5 months ago

2010's would have been too late to see those things. Wrt PCs, the PC company sale was complete and IIRC Lenovo was no longer even sharing space with IBM.

theologic|5 months ago

The PC group was sold to Lenovo in 2005. What group did you work with and where?