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To: BunnySlippers

I worked for Digital Equipment. LOL.


16 posted on 04/26/2015 5:55:41 AM PDT by NewHampshireDuo
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To: NewHampshireDuo

Ha! I remember the DEC Rainbow, their attempt at an IBM PC competitor. They didn’t sell the OS with a diskette formatting utility, the idea being you would have to buy pre-formatted diskettes from DEC. Yeah, that attempt at vendor lock-in worked real well for them . . .


19 posted on 04/26/2015 6:02:35 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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