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To: SeekAndFind

One thing to remember is that Wosniak was trying to upset a world dominated by big iron computers like IBM and CDC. Even the entrepreneurs of the day saw little market for personal computing. I remember hearing Ken Olsen, founder of DEC, saying he could not imagine why anyone would want a computer in their home. He was telling the truth.


9 posted on 02/01/2013 10:04:44 AM PST by Old North State
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To: Old North State

KO turned out to be right, although not in the way he thought. He said all you needed was a terminal hooked into a big machine. So now you have a handheld hooked into the “cloud”. Yes, those have local processing power to run apps but in reality all you need is comm software to talk to “something else”.


12 posted on 02/01/2013 10:10:46 AM PST by chimera
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To: Old North State

I agreed with him. Why would anybody want a PDP-11 in their home?.......


13 posted on 02/01/2013 10:12:17 AM PST by Red Badger (Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
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To: Old North State

A dude I met at a tavern once, offered to give me a miniVAX.


18 posted on 02/01/2013 10:29:13 AM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Old North State

I guess they couldn’t imagine that people would use computers to print guns, among other things.


20 posted on 02/01/2013 10:44:41 AM PST by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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