Fortune 32:16 (was: Amusing book cover)

From: Frank McConnell <fmc_at_reanimators.org>
Date: Sun Oct 13 15:55:01 2002

John Lawson wrote:
> On 13 Oct 2002, Frank McConnell wrote:
> > What's so amusing? The cover photograph is of a Fortune 32:16, and
> > placed to the left of the title and blurb "An Insider's Advice on How
> > You Can Earn Thousands of Extra Dollars".

What I found amusing was the placement of a computer made by a company
named "Fortune" next to those words. Not because of any particular
failings of the company or its hardware.

> Actually a similar thing went on with Molecular - which I thought were
> quite advanced machines for the time. We sold several of them, got

Molecular apparently did build some interesting machines,
multiprocessor Z80 systems which were connected to an in-the-box
CSMA/CD bus for communication with the computer that had disks
attached. Haven't seen one but have heard about it from some folks I
work with who used to work for Molecular or with their systems.

> It was such a snazzy name: Fortune 32:16. A business name - substantial,
> executive - not like having Fruit on your desk... or a business computer
> touted by... Charlie Chaplin???? Puh-leeeze!

Also a good way for one executive to tell his peers and underlings how
much he could blow on a desk ornament.

-Frank McConnell
Received on Sun Oct 13 2002 - 15:55:01 BST