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Home | Networking | Operating Systems | Hardware | Programming | Contents  Copyright © 2004 - 2013 history.uCan.us Last revised: February 26, 2013. ComputerLand Dealers of North America conference. ComputerLand dealers placed orders for nearly 250,000 computers that day. On August 12, 1981 IBM took orders for almost 250,000 more Personal Computers. IBM's planners have not been correct since. At the same meeting the target environment for the PC was described. Here are some of the assumptions made then. Small business would buy most PCs. Large business would stick with mainframes and dumb terminals. A few departments in large businesses would use PCs for local, non-connected work. The PC would be used for one task only. Not just one task at a time, but a single task all day long. This might be a spreadsheet, or word processing, or accounting, but no more than one task would be performed all day more...