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Article: The homeless PC. (personal computers) (Editorial)
- Article from:
- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- October 17, 1992
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Personal computers have never found a place in the home. They never will
THEY may have conquered the workplace within a decade, but personal computers (PCs) have found it harder to make the transition from office to home. Out of 26m PCs sold worldwide in 1991, fewer than one-third were homeward-bound. Of those, roughly half were bought by companies eager to make employees work as hard at home as they do in the office; most of the rest ended up in the back-bedroom offices of self-employed businessmen, writers and telecommuters. Out of the office and into the home office is about as far as the personal computer has been able to get.
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