Subj : Halt and Catch Fire
To   : Kaelon
From : Moondog
Date : Tue May 03 2022 23:58:00

  Re: Halt and Catch Fire
  By: Kaelon to Moondog on Tue May 03 2022 02:43 pm

 >   Re: Halt and Catch Fire
 >   By: Moondog to Kaelon on Tue May 03 2022 01:36 pm
 > 
 >  > technology.  The Soviets and Red China cannot be paid off from using a
 >  > technology that would put them ahead of every country in the free world.
 >  > They were not afraid to freely steal intellectual property.
 > 
 > I would generally agree, but one 'conspiracy theory' that is hard to shake i
 > ring line was U.S.-controlled, but there is enough industry insider disclosu
 > _____
 > -=: Kaelon :=-
 > 
A company killing off their own development is different than external
investors suppressing technology.  Xerox is a good example of a company
killing a good idea because of cost due to the technology available.  In 1973
they create the Palo Alto Research Center to research the possibilies of a
paperless office.  They developed not only the workstation, but also the
servers, the network, and laser printing and email system to make it work. 
Part of what killed it was the price of a workstation being $10,000 usd in a
time when a Buick LeSabre cost $3000.  The upper managment was short sighted
and seen it as an exercise in spending money.  After all, they were a copier/ 
imagin company.  Why interfere with their paper driven businesses?

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