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Originally Posted by Less
You mention computers?
lets look at the history of home grown computers?
The spectrum built by a guy that only wanted to build a tricycle powered by batteries and peddles.
The Amstrad A sugary little item that was rotten just like a set of neglected teeth from eating too many toffees I believe over 50% of them never worked properly when set up by their purchasers.
The Acorn that superduper cutting edge machine that was going to be the BBC's computer of choice. when the BBC executives went to see it the designers had only got their prototype working seconds before they arrived in the room. (A large proportion of whom had left Mr. Sinclair to his car, but that didn't stop him and the boss of Acorn having a girly fight in a Cambridge pub).
Our home grown computers were trash be honest.
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Haha how true. I would have liked a computer for my small company accounts which had got too large for a one man band and before purchasing one enrolled in an evening class in 1982. All the students thought we'd would be taught how to operate a computer, but we soon learnt that 'cheap' computers needed to be programmed "if" .... I decided to wait until the market provided something for small commercial companies - I've still got my Pascal notes.
A year later an entrepreneur put his programmed computer onto the market priced at £1,700 (hm can't recall the name; "Black Commander" or "Knight Commander"). I think we sent back two floppy disks which had been distorted in the post before I could input all my accounts. I kicked the machine into touch when it deleted all records of suppliers/customers when accounts had been paid but the binary code did come in handy for our R&D chap. UK Computer suppliers didn't cater for small companies the price of modules at £22K to £28 each module was too costly when you needed about five. Plus you had to pay an annual sum for a "key code" which would allow you to use your computer for another year. I heard horrendous stories of programmers who left the employ of their computer company and didn't leave "key/code" records for their replacements to use.