-=> Bob Ackley wrote to Dave Drum <=-

 DD> According to a former housemate who was a field engineer for the Itty
 DD> Bitty Machine company the top brass thought that they might sell as
 DD> many as 100,000 PCs over a period of about 10 years.   Bv)=

 BA> Actually I remember seeing a small ad in Byte for S-100 adapter cards
 BA> made by a company named "itty bitty machines," no capital
letters.  IBM
 BA> forced them to change their name or ran them out of business, this long
 BA> before IBM entered the microcomputer market.

No doubt. International Business Machines was a very jealous bunch. Did you
know, BTW, that they had to licence their IBM logo from the International
Brotherhood of Magicians? That is ironic on several levels.
 
ENJOY!!!

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