I have, I guess, this question hundreds of times, but it is inevitable. He was 31 then and was going to make a small decision then not only affect billions of human beings, but happen to everyday language. I spoke by phone this week with David Bradley, one of the twelve men who participated in the design of the original PC. This company made many important things in your story, but we still hits close to home, changed the global stage and started the computer revolution, was the model 5150, ie, PC, filed in New York on Aug. IBM continues to exist is, in many ways also a consequence of their immense power and a remarkable ability to adapt. Neither Ford (which has 108 years) and MAN have found that the overnight, two college students had developed a thousand times faster car, a million times cheaper and a billion times smaller. The challenges they faced were many, but not insurmountable.
It makes sense that companies that build cars and ships still exist today. Is a business that has been shaken from its roots with the advent of computing power to the general public, historical instance of the Big Blue was the main protagonist. In fact, the age of IBM (or partners) is significant because it sells tea or insurance. It was more than 40 years for the battery by Alessandro Volta. Of course by then not even have electricity. There are companies much more stale, of course, as the German truck maker MAN, the oldest of the companies listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, born in 1758. Very few exceed this mark, with Siemens, was founded on October 12, 1847, another veteran of the industry. No matter how you look is a huge amount of time for a company that is dedicated to digital technology.