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I love this idea. Interestingly, they reference Gates and how cheap computers helped him. All those guys, Gates included, started out working on mainframes and
by vessenes 16y ago
I love this idea. Interestingly, they reference Gates and how cheap computers helped him. All those guys, Gates included, started out working on mainframes and minis that they stole time from in University labs.
Probably that's what Gates-of-2030 is doing right now; making glowing mice in the basement of the University of Minnesota, or somewhere similar.
- easp 16y agoA fine point, though keep in mind though that Mini-computers were themselves sort of the PCs of the mainframe era. A story I heard, possibly apocryphal, is that Ken Olsen named DEC "digital equipment corporation" rather than , say "Digital Computer Corporation," as a way around IBMs lock on central purchasing at universities, national labs and corporations for any "computer" purchases.