It's 30 years ago: IBM's final battle with reality

How PS/2 and OS/2 handed the industry to Bill Gates

Special Report Thirty years ago this month, IBM declared war on reality - and lost. For the 30 years prior to that April day in 1987, nobody had dared to challenge IBM's dominance of the computer industry. It would take almost a decade for the defeat to be complete, but when it came, it was emphatic."