Fortune 32:16 (was: Amusing book cover) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

13 Oct 2002

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