personal computer
also referred to as: personal computers
4 statements across 4 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Jan 29, 2018 by Michael Dell · across every show →
Everything said about personal computer, oldest first
Jan 29, 2018 neutral
Dell: Few people and almost no students bought PCs in 1983–1984
“Students weren't really buying computers at the time, and most of the students that I knew, they weren't really interested in computers at the time.
That sounds like crazy right now, but this is back in 1983, 1984.
There weren't very many people that had perso…”
May 13, 2019 negative
Pipkin avoided manufacturing PCs due to capital constraints and intense competition
“It definitely crossed my mind, but it was pretty quickly dismissed. The amount of capital that it would have taken to do that in any meaningful way would have been more than I could have imagined being able to kind of muster and do. And secondly, there seemed …”
Nov 7, 2022 positive
Tapaninaho: Pizza ovens follow the mainframe-to-PC hardware disruption model
“Maybe there is a connection here that has repeated itself over years and years and years in other industries, that there are These large machines, they used to be mainframes, and then there was the personal computer. Things happened in between there as well, b…”
Jul 31, 2023 positive
Nintendo cartridges prevented the software piracy that plagued early PC games
“It was the way to make money. It's, you know, like personal computers, you can copy that stuff. Right. So there's only so much you can sell. But cartridges, you can't copy them. If somebody wants to play a Nintendo game, they have to buy a Nintendo game.”