First Internet message and ...

Jon Elson elson at pico-systems.com
Wed Nov 27 10:51:31 CST 2019


On 11/26/2019 09:16 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
> Good point.
>
> Some companies that COULD HAVE been the leaders made great 
> inventions and/or engineering, and then fumbled the 
> marketing.
Konrad Zuse was another one, for sure.  Bendix created the 
first personal computer, the G-15.
Packard-Bell?  Univac supposedly sold the FIRST commercial 
computers, as opposed to one-of-a-kind
machines at research institutes.  Honeywell and GE?

Jon


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