Imagine though, if Billy&Bally/They'd possessed the integrity of say, a
Tektronix


(Once - Standard of the World for, simply unarguably - the Best State/Art electronic equipment ever produced anywhere. Also started, run by an engineer. Successfully. Also pioneering in the s/ware as digital became both possible and then more refined; ie correlation applies. Just not mass-market - or that aim, either.)

Imagine!
..instead of a Me-Me-Me obsessed spoiled-brat-pair, whose largest talent was and remains: Marketing. Now that IS 'Something', even I concede - but is it ever a Something that isn't inherently tawdry, crass - and Mainly about hornswoggling the marks? 'Excellence' never rising beyond YAN lying-slogan, etc.

Power/Wealth like 'ol Chainsaw and the others - but tinhorns all the way.

(Digital Research, flawed by the usual Ego-problems as plague all 'quests'- at least never lost technical integrity.. however one picks a version.. of the means of their losing the IBM entr\ufffde to Billy's mom's lobbying of the IBM droids -- just after that Missed opportunity.)



Heh, all those opportunities .. when people Didn't assassinate Hitler, too - Cosmic Humor; it's Everywhere.