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ation, 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 dollars, he is said to have replied, "What use could this company make of an electric toy?" This rem
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
sation, 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 dollars, he is said to have replied, "What use could this company make of an electric toy?" This rem
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
sation, 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 dollars, he is said to have replied, "What use could this company make of an electric toy?" This rem
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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