Too much college? (was: Connectors (was: NEXT ColorPrinter find

From: Ben Franchuk <bfranchuk_at_jetnet.ab.ca>
Date: Mon Dec 31 22:14:26 2001

Mike Ford wrote:
>
> At 11:05 AM 12/31/01 -0800, you wrote:
> >OB_CC: That makes the old Apple ad exceptionally out of line. Apple's ad
> >said that if Edison were to have had an Apple, he could have simulated
> >everything, instead of actually having to try things out in his
> >workshop. Would he?
>
> Edison was much more a technition than an inventor. He took other peoples
> unique ideas and made working units.

He had a few flops too!
His pre-fab concrete homes were a failure. Pour cement in this home
sized
mold and out comes a home! His real invention was inventing 'inventing'.
-- 
Ben Franchuk - Dawn * 12/24 bit cpu *
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Received on Mon Dec 31 2001 - 22:14:26 GMT

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