> ...something we have IBM to thank for.

Egregious rent seeking grifters at TIA demanding $165 per half-assed scanned copy[1] of a near 3-decade-old document that they couldn't even be bothered to properly OCR, and somehow IBM gets to shoulder the blame for the interoperability clusterfuck that ensued as everyone and their mother was profiting off their innovation?

Oh, come off it.

[1] https://store.accuristech.com/tia/standards/tia-tia-232-f?pr...