Reply #39: wow! now that is a good find. ... the writing is on the wall!

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I think I see your concern. I have never read this before. I'll swear to that. It establishes a concern in 1986. I am curious what prompted his motivation it affirms things.

Again... computer years are like dog years, The industry was new. People were writing biz plans on backs of napkins. It wasn't just a commercial, (if you remember it.)

This was pre dot.com boom. Exponential increase at the time not uncommon. Mr Dell was one of many smaller players. (I am sure he would be approachable on this.) He was smarter. Margins at the time were huge on personal computers. and the installed base was minimal, computers were slow, the the refresh rate was lhigh. Moore's law was fresh. It was not like today. with every new computer model came better productivity. It was easy to cost justify.


Compare it to the DVD player revolution. It didn't take long when it took. Once costs came down.

But I agree with Rosebud: The writing is on the wall.

The combination of the two, calls a hand count, at the very least in that county.

Really,really, good find.


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