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- From: lstowell@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
- Subject: National Enq..: Question: books on industry history?
- Message-ID: <184386@pyramid.pyramid.com>
- Date: 24 Nov 92 01:16:59 GMT
- Sender: daemon@pyramid.pyramid.com
- Reply-To: lstowell@pyrnova.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell)
- Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA
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- In article <1992Nov23.151714.16128@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> c3q@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
- >I'm currently a senior majoring in CS and history. Somehow, I conned my
- >history prof into letting me do my research paper on the [recent] history of
- >computer companies- research shouldn't be bad, as I've already read >1/2 the
- >books! :)
-
-
- No compendium of this sort would be complete without some of the
- dirt on several companies.
-
- The most outstanding ones I can think of are:
-
- o How RCA's management totally fouled up not ONE but multiple
- chances to dominate the mainframe and computer market.
- [The best write-up of this was in Electronics magazine
- back in the 70-71 era...] There were famous quotes from RCA
- corporate officers, including the statement that the easiest
- way [for RCA] to beat IBM was to buy them and let RCA's sales
- force sell the IBM products.
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- o The Itel computer leasing scandals...made Billy Sol Estes
- look like an amatuer.
-
- I'm certain there are others folks on this board have lived
- thru...
-