Quoting Andy Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Jeff Fisher said "Before the PC, there was the mini/mainframe where people
paid
a LOT of money for software."
latterly, yes; but in the sixties/ early seventies you paid for the
hardware and the OS and even application software was thrown in for free.
IBM even supplied people called iirc 'systems engineers' to help you set it
up.
Andrew Davies MBCS CITP
- AndyD 8-)#
Ok, that was even before my time. And I thought I was old!
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