Editing IBM Personal Computer AT (section)

==Reception==
By January 1985, AT sales were so strong that IBM and its suppliers could not keep up with demand.<ref name="sanger19850118">{{cite news | url=http://www.nytimes.com/1985/01/18/business/computer-giant-finds-problems-in-success.html?pagewanted=all | title=Computer Giant Finds Problems in Success | access-date=February 25, 2011 | author=Sanger, David E. | date=January 18, 1985 | work=The New York Times}}</ref> An estimated 350,000 were sold by the end of 1985.{{r|bright19860623}}

''[[Creative Computing]]'' in December 1984 said "the folks at IBM have done it again". It approved of the "refreshingly standard" keyboard layout, but said that "for most individuals, AT power represents overkill ... a state of the art machine at a top of the line price".<ref name="lockwood198412">{{Cite magazine |last=Lockwood |first=Russ |date=December 1984 |title=IBM PC AT; state of the art technology enhances the PC. |url=https://www.atarimagazines.com/creative/v10n12/32_IBM_PC_AT_state_of_the_a.php |access-date=2025-01-31 |magazine=Creative Computing |page=32}}</ref> That month the magazine's [[David H. Ahl]] chose the AT as the best desktop computer when "price is no object" for 1984, describing it as "an innovative, state-of-the-art computer that has the competition gasping for breath".<ref name="ahl198412">{{Cite magazine |last=Ahl |first=David H. |author-link=David H. Ahl |date=December 1984 |title=Top 12 computers of 1984 |url=https://www.atarimagazines.com/creative/v10n12/10_Top_12_computers_of_1984.php |magazine=Creative Computing |access-date=March 16, 2019}}</ref> An industry analyst wrote in ''[[Computerworld]]'' in 1985 that the AT's power was evidence of IBM's belief that personal computers were more important for the company than minicomputers.<ref name="jeffery19850930">{{cite news | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MmR2XHzI9yoC&pg=RA1-PA46 | title=IBM's high-end micros encroaching on mini territory | work=Computerworld | date=September 30, 1985 | access-date=January 2, 2015 | author=Jeffery, Brian | pages=SR/20–21}}</ref>