From: Mike '/m' 

On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 09:33:06 -0500, Richard B.  wrote:

>On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 07:05:21 -0500, Mike N. 
>wrote:
>
>>"IBM, whose first PC in 1981 moved personal computing
>>out of the hobby shop and into the corporate and
>>consumer mainstream, has put the business up for sale,
>>people close to the negotiations said Thursday. "
>
>Wow...they sure have jettisoned a lot of business over the years.  PCs
>are pretty much a commodity these days.

The PCs at IBM account for about 12% of the revenue and a much, much
smaller percentage of the profits.

 /m

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