Virginia Lillico and her family spent their life in their homestead on land in the shadow of an ICBM missile silo in North Dakota at the height of the cold war.
one. well, it is lower prices that have helped the tremendous boom in home computer sales. about one home in ten will have a computer by the end of this year. by 1990 the number could be two out of three. we knew that the personal computer was getting serious when the competition started. because when you have competition, innovation gets stimulated. compaq. atari home computer. kaypro gives you a complete computer. this is the one. higher resolution. more storage and greater expandability than ibm s pc. ibm s entry heated up an already volatile market. one industry innovator, osborne computer, was forced into bankruptcy court last month. and apple, the industry s number one in small computers, had to concede it was now number two, behind ibm. all of a sudden, you were in an old-fashioned competitive business in which you really had to be better than the other guy. there are 150 microcomputer companies and all of them want 10% of the market, and that just isn t goin
Continuing with the tradition from last two years, I will occasionally post interviews with some of the participants of the ScienceOnline2010 conference that was held in the Research Triangle Park, NC back in January. See all the interviews in this series here.
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