9 Apr
2000
9 Apr
'00
9:48 a.m.
On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, Jerome Fine wrote:
Sort of speaking of which: did anyone ever buy any DEC equipment for home
use (Not VAXen and stuff, I'm more thinking about their PC's such as the
Rainbow?)
allisonp(a)world.std.com wrote:
The only innovation was marketing to the mass
public.
Allison
Jerome Fine replies:
Since that seems to be the almost the only aspect that matters these
days, then maybe that one of the reasons why DEC did not succeed.
As you, and many others have stated, DEC had a better mouse
trap. It almost always worked. The cheese was delicious and
rarely ran out. But the other reason for the failure of DEC was that
the DEC mouse trap was so much more expensive to buy that few
households could afford to buy one. Never mind that in the long