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Article #623542Re: RCA and GE--why did they fail in computers?
From: hanc...
Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 17:58
Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 17:58
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On Monday, May 21, 2018 at 3:13:41 PM UTC-4, Lynn Wheeler wrote: > I've repeated periodically before ... one of the former co-workers said > his father was (economics professor) involved in the gov. anti-trust > case against IBM. He relates that executives from the other companies > testified that by the late 50s, all the computer makers realized that > product line compatibility was single most important factor (customer > computer uptake was rapidly expanding and increasingly, customers needed > to upgrade). They claimed that only IBM executives were able to force > plant managers (of different models in product line) to conform to > product line capatibility. > > because customers were spending so much resources with upgrading > computers to handle increasing wirkload ... IBM had significant > marketing advantage with story about product line compatibility. I don't know about the GE product line, but RCA followed with a S/360 compatible design in their Spectra series.
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