The above photo is from a 1984 photo of a worker at IBM in Böblingen. It’s a fairly typical image from then (I know, I was there at that time, though in a different place.) Most of the computer equipment in that room is associated with the mainframe that he’s working on: tape drives (back right), storage (front right), network (front left), consoles (middle). The one exception is the IBM PC behind him.
1984 was the year Apple introduces Macintosh. 1984 is the start of the personal computer revolution that would sweep all that mainframe technology aside. And while the Mac was important in the PC revolution, the IBM PC was just as important.
P.S. I thought of that when I heard the IBM campus at Böblingen is being phased out.
P.S.S. IKEA is currently selling a version of that table, here (the BAGGBODA).
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