2023-02-01 16:28:53.44

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reading a business book about strategy that describes DEC’s downfall as a failure to focus on a single coherent strategy amongst 1) selling computers (boxes) 2) silicon fab (chips) or 3) consulting (solutions) and with hindsight I think we can all agree that it was 1a) selling colorful computers that looked really cool*

*this poster is too young to have ever seen one not in a museum much less used one

the front panel of a pdp-11/70 flush with rows of bright violet, fuchsia, and pink switches and buttons and red lights set on a black background over a wide row of violet, fuchsia, and pink keys in an off-white case