In article , "J. Clarke" wrote:

Further, there is an almost exact parallel. The Apple prototype was
constructed after hours in HP's laboratories. When it was complete, the
two Steves went to their supervisor with it, demonstrated it, and asked if
this was a product that HP wanted to market. After going through whatever
process they go through, HP decided that it wasn't and granted the two
Steves a waiver of any rights that they had to it, at which point they
started their own company to sell the thing and the rest is history.

Strangely enough, HP made _exactly_the_same_ blunder a few years later, when a
couple of their engineers, Jimmy Treybig and one other guy whose name escapes
me, came to management with an idea for a fault-tolerant computer. Management
wasn't interested, so they quit and formed their own company, Tandem
Computers, and made a pot of money selling machines that simply don't go down.

In an odd twist of fate, Tandem was bought in the late 1990s by Compaq, which
was then bought a few years later by... HP.

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Doug Miller (alphageek-at-milmac-dot-com)

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