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| From | "JHY" <JHY5566@nospam.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.folklore.computers |
| Subject | Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 |
| Date | 2015-07-23 06:08 +1000 |
| Message-ID | <d1abheFr9kpU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | (2 earlier) <210720151401353135%timstreater@greenbee.net> <PM00051B75E9682BEF@aca40d0e.ipt.aol.com> <h8i48c-51j.ln1@sambook.reistad.name> <48fbdca7-a705-4c12-89a9-3401e8798346@googlegroups.com> <220720151823327612%timstreater@greenbee.net> |
"Tim Streater" <timstreater@greenbee.net> wrote in message news:220720151823327612%timstreater@greenbee.net... > In article <48fbdca7-a705-4c12-89a9-3401e8798346@googlegroups.com>, > <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote: > >>On Wednesday, July 22, 2015 at 10:30:03 AM UTC-4, Morten Reistad wrote: >> >>> But the failure to really integrate with the PC was the doom of DEC. >>> Out-Novelling Novell should have been possible, selling DEC gear as >>> the servers, and getting a foothold in the corporate world to expand >>> out from would have been easy to see ca 1984. >>> But not from within DEC. >>> This was not specific to DEC. The other mini and BUNCH vendors failed >>> just as miserably. >> >>In a cold technical sense, yes, other old-time computer makers did "fail"; >>they're out of business altogether, or greatly reduced in size. >> >>But it's very hard to blame for failing to envision the future in the >>1980s. The marketplace and hardware were changing so rapidly it was very >>hard to even >>keep up, let alone know what was merely a fad and what truly was a new >>wave of >>the future. (Heck, they were so sure mainframes would be obsolete and >>gone by >>now, but System/360 successors are still going strong.) > > That's because of the software running on them, developed over decades. Not always, it is still the best way to do some applications.
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Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-07-19 13:25 +0000
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Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2015-07-20 14:42 +0100
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Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Lon <lon.stowell@comcast.net> - 2015-07-20 07:50 -0600
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Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-07-21 14:42 +0000
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Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-07-22 10:20 -0700
Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2015-07-22 19:37 +0200
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Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-07-30 22:50 +0000
Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 "JHY" <JHY5566@nospam.com> - 2015-07-31 14:00 +1000
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Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2015-07-22 15:26 +0200
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Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2015-07-22 18:23 +0100
Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 "JHY" <JHY5566@nospam.com> - 2015-07-23 06:08 +1000
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Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 "JHY" <JHY5566@nospam.com> - 2015-07-23 06:26 +1000
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