{"id":14928,"date":"2019-04-21T23:16:03","date_gmt":"2019-04-21T23:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/ibm-licenses-pc-patents-2\/"},"modified":"2019-04-21T23:16:03","modified_gmt":"2019-04-21T23:16:03","slug":"ibm-licenses-pc-patents-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/ibm-licenses-pc-patents-2\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM Licenses PC Patents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1301\" title=\"Tandy 5000MC\" alt=\"Tandy 5000MC\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/d63b9__tumblr_l2h2ffczq11qa1arr-217x300.jpg\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/d63b9__tumblr_l2h2ffczq11qa1arr-217x300.jpg 217w, http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/tumblr_l2h2ffczq11qa1arr.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/>April 21, 1988<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tandy_Corp.\" target=\"_blank\">Tandy Corporation<\/a> holds a press conference to announce plans to build clones of IBM\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IBM_Personal_System\/2\" target=\"_blank\">PS\/2 system computers<\/a>. The conference comes soon after IBM\u2019s announcement that it would license patents on key PC technologies. IBM made this decision as they realized they were losing control of the &#8220;IBM-compatible&#8221; PC market and could make more money licensing the technologies. Within five years, IBM clones will become more popular than the original IBM machines themselves. Eventually IBM would leave the PC manufacturing business altogether, selling their PC division to Lenovo in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/04\/21\/ibm-licenses-pc-patents\/\">IBM Licenses PC Patents<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\">This Day in Tech History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/04\/21\/ibm-licenses-pc-patents\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 21, 1988 The Tandy Corporation holds a press conference to announce plans to build clones of IBM\u2019s\u00a0PS\/2 system computers. The conference comes soon after IBM\u2019s announcement that it would license patents on key PC technologies. IBM made this decision as they realized they were losing control of the &#8220;IBM-compatible&#8221; PC market and could make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[4299,4300],"class_list":["post-14928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-licenses","tag-patents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14928"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}