The System360 Model 20 Wasn't As Bad As All That 3874

Not all physicists. And that was not a typo. It was the psychology dept. where I later became a work study student for 3 years.

Getting physicists to use computers is worse than pulling teeth. Tim Berners-Lee learned that. Computers and computer people are merely pawns to them.

Some physics problems even with computers are just hard. Where DEC excelled was in biology, neurology, real-time process control (we could have had a Data General future one 80s DG ad was almost as good as the Apple 1984 ad in my view, except lost to some older generation managers).

In part that's what end DEC, you guys, as a firm. DEC was never able to get out of its "mini-"computer mode. Even midis like the 20 and planned Jupiter could not have helped. Watson did a real number on his compebreastion and internally. For me, thankfully, I followed the Cray line. He didn't give a poo about compatibility. If you wanted the fastest machines in the world, bar none, you took what he gave you. And he never underestimated the numbers of needed cycles. He was able to follow a niche. Different times. And now Gates is attempting to learn from Watson's mistakes and the mistakes of Netscape, the Web, etc. which the brick and mortar world remains clueless to him.

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