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would want a communications machine that did not leave a written record of the conversation, as telegrams did. When William Orton, the president of Western Union, which was the Microsoft of its day, was offered the opportunity to buy Alexander Graham Bell's patent on the telephone for a hundred thousand doll
or it. Because I.B.M. thought that the money was going to be in the hardware, in the computers themselves, it allowed Gates to retain the rights to ms-dos. During the nineteen-eighties, the PC was cloned by other American manufacturers and by the Japanese, who could make and sell the machines more che
ould want a communications machine that did not leave a written =record of the conversation, as telegrams did. When William Orton, the president of Western Union, which was the Microsoft of its day, was offered the opportunity to buy Alexander Graham Bell's patent on the telephone for a hundred thousand dolla
or it. Because I.B.M. thought that the money was going to be in the hardware, in the =computers themselves, it allowed Gates to retain the rights to ms-dos. =During the nineteen-eighties, the PC was cloned by other American manufacturers and by the Japanese, who could make and sell the machines =more ch
ould want a communications machine that did not leave a written =record of the conversation, as telegrams did. When William Orton, the president of Western Union, which was the Microsoft of its day, was offered the opportunity to buy Alexander Graham Bell's patent on the telephone for a hundred thousand dolla
or it. Because I.B.M. thought that the money was going to be in the hardware, in the =computers themselves, it allowed Gates to retain the rights to ms-dos. =During the nineteen-eighties, the PC was cloned by other American manufacturers and by the Japanese, who could make and sell the machines =more ch
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