13 Oct
2002
13 Oct
'02
11:55 a.m.
John Lawson wrote:
On 13 Oct 2002, Frank McConnell wrote:
> What's so amusing? The cover photograph is of a Fortune 32:16, and
> placed to the left of the title and blurb "An Insider's Advice on How
> You Can Earn Thousands of Extra Dollars".
What I found amusing was the placement of a computer made by a company
named "Fortune" next to those words. Not because of any particular
failings of the company or its hardware.
Actually a similar thing went on with Molecular -
which I thought were
quite advanced machines for the time. We sold several of them, got
Molecular apparently did build some interesting machines,
multiprocessor Z80 systems which were connected to an in-the-box
CSMA/CD bus for communication with the computer that had disks
attached. Haven't seen one but have heard about it from some folks I
work with who used to work for Molecular or with their systems.
It was such a snazzy name: Fortune 32:16. A business
name - substantial,
executive - not like having Fruit on your desk... or a business computer
touted by... Charlie Chaplin???? Puh-leeeze!
Also a good way for one executive to tell his peers and underlings how
much he could blow on a desk ornament.
-Frank McConnell