August 12 marks the 30th anniversary of the personal computer. So it’s either fitting or ironic that Mark Dean, an IBM engineer who done the company’s first PC now says of private computers: “They’re going the way of the vacuum tube, typewriter, vinyl records, CRT and incandescent light bulbs.”
Dean shared his thoughts on an IBM-sponsored blog. Many questioned IBM’s decision to sell its PC business to Lenovo in 2005, he writes, but, “it’s now clear that our company was in the vanguard of the post-PC era.”
Talking about the post-PC era, Dean says he himself has moved at night PC and now utilizes a tablet as his “primary computer.” He doesn’t tell us who made that tablet, but it’s interesting to consider that IBM made the very first tablet computer, the ThinkPad 700T, all the way back in 1990.
Perhaps Apple’s lawyers should consider this before insisting to German along with other courts that anything that looks like a tablet violates the company’s patents and trademarks.
AS technological innovations get faster by the day, it might not be too long that pc takes a place in obsoletion like floppy disk, with CDs and DVDs joining it soon.