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1/8/2013 1:56:00 AM
On Jan 6, 11:54 pm, "max headroom" <maxheadr...@localnet.com> wrote:
> Nickname unavailable <video61cq....@gtempaccount.com> wrote innews:dfd24182-ece5-49c9-8972-49c13d9f6a43@f8g2000yqa.googlegroups.com:
>
> > On Jan 6, 10:09 pm, "max headroom" <maxheadr...@localnet.com> wrote:
> >> Nickname unavailable <video61cq....@gtempaccount.com> wrote
> >> innews:db264136-ecc2-4534-9e20-daf24eb37918@4g2000yqv.googlegroups.com:
> >>> computers used to be so expensive, that only the wealthy could afford
> >>> them. government bought millions of them in the 1970's, this brought
> >>> the costs down to the point where just about anyone could afford one,
> >>> the government created the computer industry, the rest is history.
> >> Bullshit. Pure bullshit.
> >> The microcomputer (desktop) industry grew from the ground up.
> > and the computers were expensive.
> > Big government and big businesses
> >> (with big IT departments) were among the last to jump aboard.
> > yet, big government purchases brought the price down....
>
> How many Apple][s did the government buy? How many Trash 80s, Vic 20s, Ataris, Sinclairs, and
> TI-99/4s?
>
you must be kidding.
> It was VisiCalc on the Apple][ that moved microcomputers into small businesses and got IBM's
> attention. It was IBM's (foolish) decision to allow MicroSoft to sell PC-DOS under its own label
> that let Compac (and later Dell and Gateway) flourish and turn the IBM PC into a generic DOS-box
> that brought prices down. NONE of this happened with government influence!
>
yet, you still do not get it. it was the massive buying power of
government, that got the price down.
> > ... just as big government purchases of automobiles, keep the prices down. damn, not
> > one "CONSERVATIVE" even has a basic understanding of how business works.
>
> Once again we see a pinkie rewriting history to serve its political agenda.
nope, just was there, and saw it.