Clueless Museums (was: Final Xerox Star demo)

From: Sam Ismail <dastar_at_wco.com>
Date: Wed Jun 10 23:03:29 1998

On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Doug Yowza wrote:

> It's already happening. Most people that I've talked to that had to use
> the Altair hated it because of design problems. The Apple Lisa failed
> because it was too slow. It's kind of self-fullfilling rarity: a bad
> computer generally means one that they didn't make many of and not many
> people wanted to buy. The PC-Jr will probably be a prized collectible.

One more thing: it is sort of ironic that total flops are only popular
today by way of their obscurity

Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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