IBM Slashes Personal Computer Prices - Quadruples Memory on Some Models

Article Abstract:

Price cuts of eighteen to twenty-three percent have been announced for IBM's personal computer line. A PC with 256K and single disk drive will now cost $1,995; a 256K PC with double disk drive will sell for $2,420. The PC XT now costs $4,395. The PCjr will be priced at $599. The memory of the PC was raised to 256K. These price cuts will make it very difficult for IBM's competition to maintain their market position.

Memory, Price cutting, Personal Computers, Competition, Marketing Strategy, IBM PC, Enhancements

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Telecommunications

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The X.25 networking protocol has the acceptance of both IBM and AT&T which also gains it wide user acceptance. IBM embraced the X.25 interface with IBM's System Network Architecture (SNA) in order to conform to international standards to allow simple asynchronous device connection. X.25 gateways allow multiple workstation access to a mainframe via an X.25 interface connection.

Product information, Standard, Standardization, International Business Machines Corp., American Telephone and Telegraph Co., Local area networks, LAN, Communications protocols, Protocol, Networks, evaluation, Asynchronous, SNA, SNA (Systems network architecture), X.25 Protocol, Synchronous Data Link Control

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