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John Goldin

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I just did some googling to remind myself of the order of events. I keep seeing the quote “At the time, one analyst remarked: ‘IBM bringing out a personal computer would be like teaching an elephant to tap dance.’” I haven’t found the origin of that quote.

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In 1981 I followed the news as best I could pre-internet. I devoured my copies of Byte and Creative Computing as soon as they arrived in the mail. It was fun to read this article layout all the history that I was only distantly aware of back at the time it all happened.

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