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To: i-node who wrote (446473)	1/10/2009 8:07:22 AM
From: Alighieri	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574683

The PC brought credibility to the personal computer - but Al was trying to suggest that IBM was "responsible" for the PC revolution, and I can say with 100% certainty, it was happening whether IBM got onboard or not. Their commitment sped it up, but it was going to happen. Actually all I was trying to do is to make you understand the power of a brand...your sentence above reluctantly gets it...but it doesn't fit your messed up ideology so you refuse to apply it to the car business. Al

To: i-node who wrote (446473)	1/10/2009 9:21:34 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574683

Maybe you Arkansas boys were just too dumb to steal it. I, on the other hand, would attend "computer club" meetings in our public library, where the software would be distributed freely, disassemblers would be distributed, and the primitive forms of copy protection would be defeated, mainly by just inserting a JMP instruction to skip past it. Those were the DAYS, my friend! I also belonged to an exclusive pirate bulletin board with private sections that it seemed almost all the programmers everywhere belonged to. We'd have new software before it was even released, for FREE.