The acquisition of IBM Personal Systems Group, the PC business arm of International Business Machines Corporation, by Lenovo was announced on December 7, 2004, and was completed on May 3, 2005.
Sign outside of the IBM Yamato Facility in Japan in 2007
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An IBM PC compatible is any personal computer that is hardware- and software-compatible with the IBM Personal Computer and its successors. Like the original IBM PC, an IBM PC–compatible computer uses
Acquisition of the IBM PC business by Lenovo
…business units itself, including Ambra Computer Corporation and the IBM Power Personal Systems Group, the former an attempt to design and market "clone" computers of IBM's own architecture and the latter responsible for IBM's PowerPC-based workstations. In 1998, IBM merged the enterprise-oriented…
The Compaq Portable was one of the first nearly 100% IBM-compatible PCs.
Almost all home computers since the 1990s are technically IBM PC-compatibles.
The original IBM PC (Model 5150) motivated the production of clones during the early 1980s.
The DEC Rainbow 100 runs MS-DOS but is not compatible with the IBM PC.