Re: Whatever happened to Pentax?

In rec.photo.digital.slr-systems David J. Littleboy <davidjl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:

>"Ray Fischer" <rfischer@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> van dark  <van.dark@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>Ryan Robbins napsal(a):
>>>> "Peter" <peternew@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>>>>> Nobody needs more than 64k of memory - Bill Gates
>>>>
>>>> He never said that.
>>>
>>>No, he said it.
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>> No, he didn't.  Try finding the exact quote.

>http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Gates

>He claims he didn't.

>I was at MIT when Bill was dropping out of Harvard. He showed up at a 
>meeting of a student computer group that I missed, and asked people to
work 
>with him. He got laughed at: "We have real computers to work with" was
the 
>attitude since that particular group was given a chunk of the Multics
system 
>to play with.

>MIT nerds can be amazing turkeys, sometimes.

Well, who knew?

What happened was a combination of skill, good sense, and a major
dollup of luck.  There's lots of the first two around.  It is the
last that is in short supply.

-- 
   --- Paul J. Gans