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On Mar 27, 10:41*am, Beam Me Up Scotty Then-Destroy-
wrote: On 3/27/2011 1:14 PM, Nickname unavailable wrote: On Mar 25, 12:17 am, wrote: On Mar 24, 4:20 pm, RHF wrote: On Mar 24, 11:44 am, Beam Me Up Scotty Then-Destroy- wrote: On 3/24/2011 2:24 PM, wrote: On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 11:39:10 -0400, Beam Me Up Scotty wrote: Which is why some people create no wealth..... Which is why, when the wealth class creates nothing but money from money---they contribute nothing to society Creating Corporations that allow useless people to produce things that are considered wealth, is creating wealth. *The person organizing the production from nothing shares in the creation of that wealth. *Without them creating and organizing a place for the otherwise unproductive people to create wealth, no wealth would be created. Where as the people on their own could NOT have produced anything of wealth due to a lack of ability. - Who created the Microsoft Wealth? - Without Bill Gates, who would have - created personal computing that would - become a world wide success. D'Oh ! Those Two Guy from Apple : Sure did very well without BG@MS - imho ~ RHF *. -a-minor-historical-point- It was the IBM PC and IBM Corp that was the the 'creative force' that caused BG@MS and MS Corp to become what it was in the 1990s. *. *.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - IBM was the main driving force of 'mini-computers' in the early 80's . HRM BG is one lucky SOB. And the rest is history *. . . *actually it was commodore, atari and apple. ibm was a late comer into the mini-computer race. Sinclare was a tiny little computer that was affordable and you saved programs onto a casset tape. *I had one, it was among the first affordable computers.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Until IBM entered the market it was considered a hobby for geeks. I bought an Altair 8800. A friend already had a Mark1 but he never put it in a box. I got a TRS-80 then TRS-80 Mod4. CP/M was catching on. Unix was going nowhere. IBM tried to buy CP/M but Gary Kendal would have none of it. Microsoft said they could get it for IBM but couldn't so they told a Seattle guy that Q-DOS was only worth $5000 even though they had already sold it to IBM for $500,000. I quite subscribing to Computer World when the declaired the microcoputer was finally a reality because IBM entered the market. Computer World stopped reporting on hobby computing and focused on DOS machines. It wasn't until Byte decared that Clintons tax increase was going to kill the economy that I dropped Byte. Corporate media favors corporations because they pay the advertising dollars where hobbyists do not. |
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