Research Paper on:
Mac v. IBM

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VERSUS THE MACINTOSH , November, 2001 properly! In the 1950s, IBM (the acronym for  International Business Machines) designed, manufactured and sold typewriters, adding machines and card sorters. The computer industry was a mere infant at the time but IBM saw the potential and they  began by making and selling computers that would read their punched cards. IBM was already a dominant force in the industry and it went on to create a veritable monopoly  in business computers. Needless to say, there were any number of antitrust suits against this successful company. These suits led to the manufacturing of computers that looked like IBMs but  could not work like them because IBM controlled the software operating system market. That was the 1970s and 1980s (Baczewski, 1998). By 1981, IBM had the most popular personal computer  on the market. Then, the clones began. Rod Canion, Jim Harris, and Bill Murto were working at Texas Instruments. They left and formed Compaq and then went about building a  computer to replicate IBMs. Their first portable model was introduced to the American public in November 1982. Unlike IBMs desktop size, this one was more portable and business people bought  them up so they could carry their computer with them when they traveled. Compaq also priced their computers lower than IBMs (Power, nd). For years, there was fierce competition  for the leading position between IBM and Compaq. But then numerous other companies began making IBM-type computers and IBM began losing its dominance in the market (Power, nd). Today, IBM,  which, by the way, is nicknamed "Big Blue," is still the #1 provider of computer hardware in the world. Products include: mainframe computers, personal computers, notebook computers and network servers.