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On Tue, 20 Jun 1995, Don Whiteside wrote: > > How about the Micro Channel bus that they screwed up marketing? > > IBM didn't so much screw up the marketing as make it impossible for the > experience card makers to produce these things. Some bright boy decided > that licensing the MCA spec meant you had to _also_ pay BACK royalties on > all the ISA cards you made. Like I said, inept management. The almighty dollar rules over common sense. Just to make a passing attempt at keeping this on-topic, some of you newcomers here might not know that the TP700 and 720 had an MCA architecture. Eventually, IBM went with a standard ISA architecture in the 750 series on up. So now you know what to say if someone asks "Thinkpad 755? Isn't that an MCA machine?" :) > > Well, IBM isn't the only one though, Sony messed up making Beta the > > standard. > > I think Sony was more a victim of the public which didn't care as much > about visual quality as being able to fit six (icky quality) hours onto a > tape instead of a measley 3.5........ I think Sony also tried to charge an outrageous amount to license Beta. Beta still lives. Most broadcast studios use the latest version, ED-Beta, for their out-of-studio camera work. -- John H. Kim (No, I don't commute between MIT and UIUC :) jokim@mit.edu