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Sure, the world had private computers earlier than the 5150 was launched in 1981. But IBM’s gross sales pitch—bringing Big Blue’s corporate computing prowess into the home—helped make this a wildly successful product. Even extra influential than the 5150 itself was Big Blue’s determination to license its PC working system, DOS, to different manufacturers. That led to the delivery of “IBM Compatibles,” the forerunner to nearly all non-Apple PCs out there today. But, more than that, it basically modified our relationship to computing and information—a change more probably to have …