The IBM PC, Part 1: Arrival
Summary
The IBM PC, Part 1: Arrival chronicles the PC’s birth in 1981, detailing Project Chess, leadership at IBM, licensing battles for CP/M-86 and 86-DOS, and the decision to open the platform to third-party vendors. It explains how IBM’s open-architecture approach and brand power fueled an ecosystem that spawned PC clones and changed the computing industry, while foreshadowing IBM’s eventual decline.