15 Nov
2017
15 Nov
'17
10:17 a.m.
On 11/15/2017 09:01 AM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote:
but because of Honeywell's incompetence at the
computer business.
(That incompetence eventually resulted in a decision - probably correct from
the _business_ point of view, given said incompetence - to get out of the
computer business.)
MANY companies were quite bad at making a go of the computer
business. Xerox is probably legendary, but GE and RCA were
certainly also famous for this. Honeywell made a LOT of
computers in various forms - aerospace, minicomputer,
industrial controls, etc. But, I guess they were
incompetent at competing with IBM in the large systems market.
They were included in the BUNCH, however.
Jon