IBM’s new personal computers are selling slowly.

Two months after their splashy debut, IBM’s new Personal System/2 computers are selling sporadically and are in danger of languishing on dealers’ shelves because the software designed for them is not ready, industry analysts said. “They are selling slower than most people had expected,” one analyst said. Several analysts said dealers were discounting the PCs and some are selling them into the “gray market,” a market where unauthorized vendors cut the prices even more. IBM officials, however, called reaction to the new line of PCs “very positive.”