Digital Equipment Corporation! Made THE fatal flaw of dismissing PC’s as “toys” and betting future on workstations.
Once a Fortune 10 company. Ancient an soon to be forgotten history.
Ken Olsen was a genius.
At one point DEC was outselling Dell. It didn’t last long though!
-SB
When DEC finally came out with an 8088 desktop PC running DOS, they tried to sell it without a FORMAT program! You couldn’t take a generic floppy and format it, you had to buy your proprietary floppies from DEC!
For this among other reasons, the DEC Rainbow flopped.