Thread: Does the private sector create wealth anymore?
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Default Does the private sector create wealth anymore?
On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:13:27 -0500, wrote:

I am not sure how the government had anything to do with the PC
itself. That was really started by a couple guys in an Albuquerque who
made a kit computer (Altair) that pretty much just blinked lights.
Everything else built up from that with very little from the
government at all.

The Altair and the Z-80 bus machines were out there for a while but no
one in big business really took notice until the Apple II came along
and Visicalc spreadsheet software started showing people the real
potential for personal computing. That's what brought IBM into the
game after their sales people started running into Apples at true blue
customer sites.

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