[Info-vax] Dave Cutler, Prism, DEC, Microsoft, etc.

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Michael Kraemer wrote:
> Neil Rieck schrieb:
> 
>> <quote>
>> ”BTW, this was not an usual procedure at DEC. Many employees left the
>> company with intellectual property from a cancelled project under
>> their arm, with the understanding that if they made it a commercial
>> success then DEC would come back knocking on the door for for
>> royalties.“
>> </quote>
> 
> And still people wonder why DEC went down the drain.
> 

It was never a mystery to me!  DEC was totally out of touch with the 
market place.  The the RAM for the Rainbow that DEC sold for ~$700, I 
bought at the Trenton Computer Festival for $30 US!  The 20 MB disk 
drive that DEC sold for $2200, I bought for $300.  The 5-1/4" floppy 
disks that DEC sold for $5 US each, I bought for $0.50 each and 
formatted them myself in spite of the fact that my Rainbow "could not 
properly format a floppy disk!"

There were about 20 different models of a 20MB disk from DEC!  The 
differences between the models?  It was the mounting hardware!  I could 
go on but I hope you get the idea.

Storage-Works was nothing short of brilliant but it was rather late and 
the marketing was nothing short of idiocy!

I could go on but most of you know the litany as well as I do!