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by paunchy 1791 days ago
The industrial design of those systems was nice but the Micro Channel architecture bus was an abject failure that never got traction.

There are better examples of great IBM PC products, like the ThinkPad.
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queuebert 1791 days ago
The nipple mouse? You can't be serious.
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rbanffy 1791 days ago
Are you kidding? It was like telepathy. You touch it and it guesses where you want the pointer to be.
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naikrovek 1791 days ago
agree. all trackpads pale in comparison. all of them.
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