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Date Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:12:47 -0600
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Swifty said:

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> I was in IT before TCP/IP was invented. I remember remarking that I
> saw no future for it. I've made worse mistakes.

Sify:

    I made the biggest mistake of my life:

    I was a member of a 2-man IT team (the other guy was Dan McCormack) that 
was sent to Provo, Utah in the early '80s to investigate a small company 
that needed $1 million 'seed' money to carry on with development of their 
new networking technology.

    In their small building, I witnessed a guy getting 'smashed' from a 
bottle of booze in his desk drawer. In another we watched as a guy tried to 
connect two 'micro computer' boards and show us how he could transmit 
messages thru his basic new network technology.  The boards were about ten 
feet apart, and several wires were floating in the air above and near us 
between the boards.  The test failed and the guy got very flustered.

    This was very unsettling; and then there was a final meeting that day 
between us and one of their top executives. He was very nervous, and really 
wanted us to recommend that his company get the $1 million seed money. This 
would give our Canadian Company (Altel Data), a 25% stake in the new 
company.

    So, Dan & I reurned to Canada, and I wrote up a paper for our Canadian 
managers that strongly recommended that we *not* invest in this scary U.S. 
startup. So, my managers accepted my negative recommendation.

    This company later turned out to be Novell !!

    It later turned out that I left Altel Data (to go on my own), and Altel 
Data itself was collapsed due to the emergence of microcomputers, and the 
collapse of minicomputers (we had sold Vax and PDP minis before then).

-Mel Smith
(Loser-at-Large)

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                Re: Super basic newbie question Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2012-03-15 10:00 +0000
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