Gary,

I'm not so sure IBM had a "downfall" so much as its PC business never took off like it could have. The rest of IBM seemed to chug along very nicely through all this and now seems to be in the best shape its ever been in.

Cheers,

Jim N

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>FWIW, I agree with you 100%. IBM's downfall came when the people buying the
>hardware were no longer impressed by the IBM logo on the PC. It suddenly
>became an acceptable business practice to buy a clone. I can easily see the
>same thing happen to Microsoft. I've started to see a lot of people and
>organizations move to Linux, even at home. Last night a neighbor gave us
>her old PC. (We now have more computers than people.) It's a 486/25 or 33,
>with a small drive. My 20-year-old daughter asked if she could have it to
>learn Linux.
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>Gary J. Sibio
>Mr. Travel, Inc.
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> >>> Please Mr. Gates, can we have our computers back? <<<