Re: Rewriting computing history...

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <12182145.VDCPVNRV@news.telusplanet.net>,
Simon Williams  <DON'Temail@luddite.ca> wrote:
 
>> Yeah and what did the 'average' person do with the gift of personal
>> computing? Played the computer equivalent of "Dallas" on it. What a
>> waste!
> 
> Considering the *average* person never actually *needed* a computer I'd
> say the 'revolution' was really in the way computers were marketed.
 
Yep -- quite a difference from IBM's estimate of the world market
of computers to be about 5 machines, or DEC's statement that no-one
would ever need a computer at home.....
 
BTW marketing which makes people buy stuff they don't need must be
considered successful marketing....
 
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