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chong · 02-13-2007, 10:25 AM

Personally, I'm with Bill Gates on this. I'm sure he was at least half serious about his statement. I remember when a PC cost close to $10,000 and it had dual floppies! An IBM 360 mainframe computer set-up with 16K!!! RAM cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and we could not even run a payroll routine with it for more than 10 people. And you had to have those punch card operators to input your programs and data, not to mention the computer operators to look after the system 24/7. So, I think Bill has the right to say what he said.

They can joke about it, but seems to me, GM sounds like "sour grapes".

02-13-2007, 10:25 AM	#4 (permalink)
chong Senior Member chong's Photo Gallery Location: Seattle, WA Find me on the map! Zone: 8-9 Name: Chong Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 1,851 BananaBucks : 124,613 Feedback: 6 / 100% Said "Thanks" 1,309 Times Was Thanked 1,702 Times in 759 Posts Said "Welcome to Bananas" 991 Times	Re: Gates versus GM Personally, I'm with Bill Gates on this. I'm sure he was at least half serious about his statement. I remember when a PC cost close to $10,000 and it had dual floppies! An IBM 360 mainframe computer set-up with 16K!!! RAM cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and we could not even run a payroll routine with it for more than 10 people. And you had to have those punch card operators to input your programs and data, not to mention the computer operators to look after the system 24/7. So, I think Bill has the right to say what he said. They can joke about it, but seems to me, GM sounds like "sour grapes".