Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5138
I was going to sit this one out, as being obvious flame-bait, but Jeroen's post appears to...
What you call "clever marketing" the DOJ calls "monopolistic practices". The courts agreed with the DOJ. Having had several large PC manufacturers refuse to sell me a system without...
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It was a long time ago (1940s?), or perhaps about the time when the IBM 701 was being designed. Tom Watson (the original one) thought there might be a use for 7 of these things in the entire world. A famous underestimate, not unlike the one the management of Western Union made when Al. G. Bell offered them the telephone patent for $1 million (IIRC), and they turned it down as a useless invention because it did not give the recipient a paper copy of the message.
Only one ENIAC was built, at Moore School of Engineering in Philadelphia. It was not really a computer in the modern sense of the term, since the programs were hard wired into the machine with co-ax cables, and not stored in the memory. In fact, it had no memory as the term is now used. Not quite. IBM made an impressive line of electrical and electronic (vacuum tube) calculators, sorters, calculating card punches, etc. The calculators were programmed by plugging wires into plugboards. Not much fun, but challenging.
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