5 Jun
2012
5 Jun
'12
9:13 p.m.
In article <B9639BAE3F34504E83FEEDD71D4AFB463D4303 at mail.bensene.com>,
"Rick Bensene" <rickb at bensene.com> writes:
[...] Unfortunately, no such effort
was made to take the 4051/4052/4054 concept and implement it using a
nice raster display subsystem. Such a product could have been a major
hit.
Judging from the evolution of the product line, it seems that they
decided to pursue workstation type products instead of personal
computer type products. When they made the shift to raster systems,
they switched to CP/M-86 and unix as the operating environment to
provide local graphics processing.
Tek made quite a number of blunders in numerous
attempts to get into
the computer marketplace, all mostly a result of rather clueless
management that didn't know how to market anything by Test & Measurement
equipment...and when they did have good computer products, they tried to
shoehorn them into the T&M business by turning them into instrumentation
controllers, eliminating any chance of them succeeding in the computer
marketplace.
Shades of Xerox PARC?
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