I find myself reminiscing this morning as I devour a few articles about the history of computing. Both are filled with passion and make very good reading. Moreover there is a great deal of history in each and you can learn some valuable business lessons from each.<\/p>\n
The most passionate is an article<\/a> from Jason Perlow explaining why he will never buy a Mac. Amazingly Perlow takes on Steve Jobs and calls him a snake oil salesman. He backs up his statements with facts and makes a convincing argument about why we may see Mac clones in the future. He also explains why Apple hasn’t taken over the world – hint – pricing and a closed business model.<\/p>\n David Strom has a great article about 25 dead tech products which includes Radish Communications and SCO UNIX. The article brought back lots of memories for me as I was there when Radish launched at a trade show – I just can’t recall which. I also was a programmer on SCO UNIX in late eighties. Another one of companies mentioned in the article<\/a> was Stac Electronics – it was taken down by Microsoft. I never had a chance to use the company’s products but they certainly filled a valuable role in the market. This story reminded me that I would have added Quarterdeck to the list as they had some great memory and OS boosting apps which made it a pleasure to use a computer in the good old days. Microsoft took them out as well.<\/p>\n Then there is Borland Paradox – an extremely popular database program which cost $600 and was taken out by $99 Microsoft Access. Then there was WordPerfect which lost out to Microsoft Word – sensing a pattern?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I find myself reminiscing this morning as I devour a few articles about the history of computing. Both are filled with passion and make very good reading. Moreover there is a great deal of history in each and you can learn some valuable business lessons from each. The most passionate is an article from Jason<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158,168,178,170,171,179,172,1,160,162,199,188,1676,198,189,203,118,177,174,190,191,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8019"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}