Subj : Re: Halt and Catch Fire
To   : Nightfox
From : Moondog
Date : Fri May 06 2022 11:32:00

  Re: Re: Halt and Catch Fire
  By: Nightfox to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu May 05 2022 09:26 am

 >   Re: Re: Halt and Catch Fire
 >   By: poindexter FORTRAN to Moondog on Wed May 04 2022 07:10 am
 > 
 >  PF> I think of the stories of Steve Wozniak approaching his employer
 >  PF> (Hewlett Packard) to notify them that he'd created the Apple while
 >  PF> under a work product agreement and HP had first right to his IP. They
 >  PF> passed on it.
 > 
 > I remember the scene in "Pirates of Silicon Valley" showing Steve Wozniak br
 > 
 > Nightfox
 > 
Wehn I worked in nuclear power generation, my boss had been there since the
plant went online in 1978.  Computer Science and Services was a subset from
the Instrumentation and Controls department.  His boss bought 3 desktops and
upper management freaked out.  They were considered less useful than a
terminal because they couldn't connect to anything, and wereway less powerful
than a mainframe.  It took several years before minds were changed.  15 years 
ago they replaced most of their computers with a thin client environment,
then recently went back to desktops due to downfalls in having a terminal
server being a critical point of failure

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