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What Happened To IBM PCs? Why The Company Stopped Making Them (www.bgr.com)
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Y'all remember shareware Doom on an IBM 486DX?

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[–] nomecks@lemmy.wtf 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

It's because they fill victim to the bad capacitor wave of 2k and burned billions of dollars replacing the mainboard from almost every Netvista desktop made. I know because I was the guy replacing them.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

did anyone ever sue the capacitor plague manufacturers to recoup their costs?

[–] nomecks@lemmy.wtf 3 points 12 hours ago

I recall it being a Chinese company, and it was the year 2000, so no.