Template:Did you know nominations/Reply Corporation
- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 05:01, 28 October 2021 (UTC)
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Reply Corporation
- ... that Reply Corporation went from competing against IBM with clones of the PS/2 to selling upgrade motherboards for them? Source: "In October 1992 the company laid off 40 of its 100 employees and set in place an entirely new strategy. Petracca went to his customers to ask how Reply should reinvent itself. After conducting an elaborate survey of the company's customer base, in January 1993 Reply successfully introduced motherboards and upgrades for the PS/2 installed base, and the company again closed the year with revenues of $37 million" (Ehrenfeld 1995, p. 72.)
- ALT1:... that Reply Corporation was the first computer manufacturer to offer x86 silicon manufactured by IBM? "IBM Corp. has signed its first OEM agreement for its 386SLC and 486SLC processors with Reply Corp., which has agreed to start carrying boards with IBM's modified chips. Reply expects to start shipping a 386SLC-based system by the end of this month ..." (Quinlan 1989a)
- Reviewed: Elaine Estes
Created by DigitalIceAge (talk). Self-nominated at 01:26, 12 October 2021 (UTC).
The article is long enough and new enough. I assume good faith on the references that I can't access. The sentence ending with "two machines competed with the Models 50 and 60, mid-ranged computers in the PS/2 line which IBM introduced in 1987." needs a direct citation due to it being part of the first hook. A QPQ is needed. SL93 (talk) 20:15, 24 October 2021 (UTC)
- @SL93: Citation added to that sentence, and I've (finally) completed the QPQ. Thanks for the review! DigitalIceAge (talk) 07:30, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
