In
<of4dd8582a.087bd948-on48257ba5.0018d4de-48257ba5.001c2...@sg.ibm.com>,
on 07/11/2013
at 01:06 PM, Timothy Sipples <[email protected]> said:
>I'll offer a counterexample: the System/360. IBM led the
>electromechanical tabulating and accounting equipment market, and
>the System/360 utterly destroyed the very market IBM dominated.
You don't think that, e.g., the Honeywell H-200, IBM 650, IBM 1401,
RCA 301, UNIVAC 1004, UNIVAC SS-80/SS-90, had already destroyed the
reproducer and tabulator markets and that the ubiquity of tape drives
had already destroyed the collator and sorter market?
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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