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		greenyoda on Oct 19, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: One Company Dared Compete With IBM And Macintosh C... I remember that around that time several other companies were competing with IBM. Texas Instruments made a PC-compatible machine, DEC made a (somewhat) PC-compatible machine[1], etc. And Gateway was founded in 1985.[2] There's a lot more information on IBM PC clones in the Wikipedia article on that topic.[3] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_100 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway%2C_Inc. [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_clone

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