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Article #623546Re: RCA and GE--why did they fail in computers?
From: Questor
Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 07:44
Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 07:44
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On Mon, 21 May 2018 11:06:20 -0700 (PDT), hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote: >In the 1950s and 1960s, computers were the hot growing thing, >and a lot of companies got into them. Some were large, some >were small. > >Two big companies were GE and RCA. Both had extensive product >lines that already served industry, so they should've known how >to market and support complex technical products. GE, among >other products, sold power plants. RCA sold television stations. > >Anyone care to comment on what went wrong with them? Robert L. Glass talks about some of the seven dwarfs, including RCA, in Computing Catastrophes (1983).
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