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From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Stupid IBM Flame
Message-ID: <2575@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 2 Nov 89 17:17:18 GMT
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In article <2196@hudson.acc.virginia.edu>, gl8f@astsun8.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes:
> In article <2564@optilink.UUCP> cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
> 
# # Short memory, Mr. da Silva?
# 
# Short memory, Mr. Cramer? Before the IBM PC was a useful system, I
# wrote an inventory control program in dBase II on a CP/M machine for a
# medium-sized business. IBM did not invent the business PC market.
# Hell, I'm only 24, and I remember that much!
# 
# Followups to alt.religion.computers, where they belong.
# 
# Greg Lindahl

I didn't say that IBM invented it; I wrote an accounting system on
a Radio Shack computer at the time the IBM PC came out.  What I did
say was that relatively few companies were prepared to risk their
precious records on the microcomputers that were in common use before
then -- and frequently, with good reason.

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