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To: Charles Hughes who wrote (14236)11/18/1997 7:05:00 PM
From: drmorgan  Read Replies (1) of 24154
 
Chaz, your a walking history book of computing! I appreciate your post's on the computing past. In regards to this, so true! However, people continued to buy DOS because big companies bought IBM

I remember the small company I worked for bought Mac II's when they first came out, at $5,000 a pop. They mainly bought them for desktop publishing and kind of overlooked engineering requirements so I ended up using a somewhat cheesy electronic CAD tool for schematic capture and PCB design. But many companies developing CAD software at the time took notice of the Mac and announced ports of their software to the Mac platform. At the time I talked to numerous comapnies that developed engineering tools for IBM platform and UNIX, and was really excited they we're going to offer products for the Mac. I became religious about Mac's and had BIG plans of buying state of the art engineering software for our Mac's. Guess what? It never happened! The companies that told me they we're going to offer a Mac product bailed out on it. They said they didn't have enough customer interest.

I guess that the IBM PC was so entrenched already in the business community that engineering on the Mac really didn't have a chance. But I have always wondered if Apple blew it early on by promoting Mac's in education more than business?

Derek
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