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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
n the world. Two books about the fall of I.B.M. and Gates' role in it have recently appeared--"Big Blues," by Paul Carroll, and "Computer Wars," by Charles H. Ferguson and Charles R. Morris--and an occasional chill runs up the spine of anyone reading them at the ease with which Gates eviscerated men much older and
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
the =world. Two books about the fall of I.B.M. and Gates' role in it have recently appeared--"Big Blues," by Paul Carroll, and "Computer Wars," by Charles H. Ferguson and Charles R. Morris--and an occasional chill runs up the spine of anyone reading them at the ease with which Gates eviscerated men much older and
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
the =world. Two books about the fall of I.B.M. and Gates' role in it have recently appeared--"Big Blues," by Paul Carroll, and "Computer Wars," by Charles H. Ferguson and Charles R. Morris--and an occasional chill runs up the spine of anyone reading them at the ease with which Gates eviscerated men much older and
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