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Author : emabolo
27 February 2026, 9:56 pm
In August 1981, IBM announced a new personal computer at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York. With 16K of RAM, a single floppy drive, and a starting price of $1,565, it was designed squarely for business users. The operating system — MS-DOS, which Microsoft had acquired from a small Seattle company for $50,000 just two weeks before the announcement — was a tool for accountants, not adventurers. Nobody in that hotel ballroom was thinking about games.
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Author : Tasha
2 February 2026, 5:34 pm
Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; teach a man to play Doom, and you'll never get another day's work out of him. Doom Press Release 1993: "In 1993, we fully expect to be the number one cause of decreased productivity in businesses around the world."
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