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The Pantagraph from Bloomington, Illinois • Page 48

Publication:
The Pantagraphi
Location:
Bloomington, Illinois
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48
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E6 THE PANTAGRAPH, SUNDAY, NOV. 6, 1983 IBM PCjr leads the way for industry recently withdrew from the home computer market, or Apple Computer, which has never officially said it is in the home computer business, there are few fears about IBM's ability to successfully compete In the consumer market Indeed, many industry analysts say IBM is the one company that can inject stability and a sense of legitimacy to a market that has been wracked by price wars and bankruptcies. IBM's announced entry into the consumer market, says Lee Isgur, an analyst at Paine Webber, has opened a "price umbrella" beneath which home computer companies may compete without the fear of the debilitating price wars that have marked this year's sales. Fred Gibbon, president of Software Publishing a California-based software house that produces programs for both the PC and PCjr. "The software momentum is clearly on IBM's side and will propel the machine to success." As one of the biggest companies in the world and by far the largest one in computers, IBM is seen as uniquely positioned to serve the consumer market.

"IBM is now the Procter Gamble or the Kellogg's of the computer business," said Fredrick Adler, a venture capitalist who has financed several companies in the personal computer industry. "They've got a technological brand name that they know they can charge a premium for." "open architecture" approach, say industry participants, assures a flood of products such as printers, light pens and "mice" hand-held controls for moving a cursor on the screen that should enhance the PCjr's saleability. This compatibility has other advantages, as well. The PCjr could just as easily be linked to an office computer network via the phone lines from the home. The "product line" concept of personal computing that IBM espouses will make it possible for IBM machines to be used for home banking, electronic mail, information retrieval and other data communications services that many experts anticipate will become major growth areas.

"Everything is gravitating around the IBM standard." Said WASHINGTON IBM's new PCjr, the company's first computer designed (or consumers, may not be the most innovative or best-priced machine around, but it will quickly become the standard by which all other home computers are measured, computer industry sources predict. The new computer, which IBM introduced last week, is a scaled-down but expandable version of the IBM PC, which has captured a whopping share of the personal computer market in less than two years. Many of the programs already written for the IBM PC can run without modification on the PCjr and that compatibility creates a family of IBM products that software companies can't wait to exploit. Though some other computer makers have kept secret the operating details of their products, IBM has published the technical standards of its personal computer line to encourage both hardware and software vendors to make products to use with the machines. That Unlike Texas Instruments, which Tin wminton Post WOULD YOU LIKE BETTER RATES FROM YOUR FDIC or FSLIC Inturad CD's Inturad Tax-Fr Investment IRA or KEOGH Plan Gdward i D.

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