IBM's PC division floundered for years after the PCjr proved too expensive and its new OS was nothing compared to Windows, allowing Lenovo to buy IBM in 2004.
PS2 was also an extreme overreaction to the IBM cloning situation, with its various “safe guards” against unauthorized replicas that made it a bitch to work on/upgrade iirc.
PS2 was also an extreme overreaction to the IBM cloning situation, with its various “safe guards” against unauthorized replicas that made it a bitch to work on/upgrade iirc.