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Page 59
... early years never held the lead in the manufacture and marketing of personal computers . That honor belonged to the second pioneering company in the industry , Tandy Corp. , a Texas concern that had been around for thirty years but ...
... early years never held the lead in the manufacture and marketing of personal computers . That honor belonged to the second pioneering company in the industry , Tandy Corp. , a Texas concern that had been around for thirty years but ...
Page 61
... early as 1979 , and had failed . But there were others , notably IBM , that would probably not fail . To be sure , IBM's earlier attitude toward minicomputers was reassuring . Digital Equipment Corp. had introduced its minicomputers in ...
... early as 1979 , and had failed . But there were others , notably IBM , that would probably not fail . To be sure , IBM's earlier attitude toward minicomputers was reassuring . Digital Equipment Corp. had introduced its minicomputers in ...
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... early days is in fair measure a history of how people took so complex a task and made it simpler - how they bridged the gap between what the machine understood and could do and what hu- man beings understood and might want to do . This ...
... early days is in fair measure a history of how people took so complex a task and made it simpler - how they bridged the gap between what the machine understood and could do and what hu- man beings understood and might want to do . This ...
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