No one likes an antisocial computer. If a machine cannot communicate with other devices, its owner can be isolated and less effective. Yet the IBM Personal Computer, which has become a desktop standard since its debut in 1981, still cannot be linked in large groups. Result: a virtual epidemic of lonely-terminal syndrome among IBM customers, who have bought nearly 3 million of PC's four current models. Growing impatient in the past year, PC users have been demanding a way to connect the machines. IBM responded in 1984 with a system for linking a few PCs, but business users clamored for a...
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