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The IBM PS/2: 25 Years of PC History

pcworld.com (10 months and 12 days ago)

Jul 10, 2012

Here's a fond look back at the Personal System/2 series of PCs, which embarrassed IBM in the late 1980s but shaped the modern PC you know today. full story

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