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To: AmericaUnited

And a 10MB hard disk was HUGE!!!


20 posted on 12/12/2005 5:15:31 PM PST by upchuck (Article posts of just one or two sentences do not preserve the quality of FR. Lazy FReepers be gone!)
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To: upchuck
And Ken Olsen, CEO of Digital Equipment Corp. said, "Why would everybody want a computer on their desk?"

For those that don't know, DEC was big into timesharing systems with users using a dumb serial terminal. Straight text, no graphical interface, etc.

21 posted on 12/12/2005 5:18:35 PM PST by upchuck (Article posts of just one or two sentences do not preserve the quality of FR. Lazy FReepers be gone!)
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