Thread: Creating Wealth ? -or- Redistributing The Wealth !
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Old March 25th 11, 04:10 PM posted to rec.radio.shortwave,alt.news-media,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,alt.politics.economics,alt.politics.liberalism
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Default Creating Wealth ? -or- Redistributing The Wealth !
On 03/25/2011 08:33 AM, wrote:
On Mar 24, 10:17 pm, wrote:
IBM was the main driving force of 'mini-computers' in the early 80's .
How quickly we forget companies like Digital Equipment Corp and Data
General....

HRM BG is one lucky SOB. And the rest is history . . .
The story of how Gary Kildall and CP/M lost the IBM PC business has
been told many times....

IBM made the first "Desktop" computer in pretty much the same form
factor we use today, and with the same basic components. They did the
world a huge favor by not fighting 3rd party hardware and software.
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