Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "The Computer Chronicles - IBM Personal System 2 (PS/2) (1987)" video.

  1. 6:49 Worth also mentioning: SQUARE PIXELS! Unlike EGA, VGA finally offered a mode where the pixel density was the same in both the X- and Y-directions. So if you drew a circle, it looked like a circle on-screen, not an ellipse.
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  2. 9:42 DOS 3.3 was the version where the disk error prompt was changed from “Abort, Retry, Ignore?” to “Abort, Retry, Fail?”. PC Magazine adopted the new prompt as the title of their column of tales about hilarious screwups involving computers.
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  3. 6:09 “easy” “costly”. The licensing charges IBM was demanding for Micro Channel were best described as “punitive”. This was IBM’s last-gasp attempt to reclaim some dominance over the PC world. It partially succeeded, but in a way it also hastened their decline.
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  4. 24:50 Reference to John Sculley moving from Pepsi to boss of Apple.
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  5. 12:00 Right on.
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  6. 13:06 Right on, again.
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  7. It was a 16-bit OS, in a world that was already embracing the 32-bit 386-based machines. In other words, it was too little, too late.
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