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For PCs and laptops, IBM
Over here, you were immune to the Curse of Wangaratta. Around the time that we were getting away from 3270s, some government incentive had inspired It's Better Manually to manufacture in the aforementioned place - whose name is as synonymous with puter excellence as the Bay Area. The power supplies, IIRC, were sourced from Sun Moon Wong - Korean for Lucas. I'll leave the rest to your imagination.
They were also pushing Token Ring, dismissing Ethernet as cowboyware. How I laughed, spending two futile weeks in KL trying to get something to run because of a dud adapter.
They are due credit for the modular, open architecture they endowed on the PC; their beautiful, iconic 'clicky' keyboard; their S/36s and 3090s, and DB2. But every time I see an IBM PC I'm a little sick in my mouth.
That said, my work IBM laptop with a Ubuntu flash boot drive instead of its native XP is transformed from Jade Goody into Kathryn Jenkins.
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