I should probably put the right parts in. https://circuitcellar.com/cc-blog/ciarcia-onward-upward/
"Let me warn any budding entrepreneurs that these four events test your gambling tactics more than your business acumen. In my case, Ciarcia’s Circuit Cellar was the product 30 years ago, along with the supporting manufacturing company. It grew quickly and afforded certain luxuries (e.g., Porsches, BMWs, Ferraris, etc.) typically necessary in our culture to designate achievement. Too little business was not an issue. The “too much business” event happened right after the introduction of the IBM PC. Circuit Cellar was the third company in the country to market an IBM PC clone. I thought it was a good idea. Everybody who couldn’t get a real IBM PC started banging on our door for an MPX-16. We got $1 million in orders in just a few weeks! What was I supposed to do? Certainly not what 99% of you would have done—I stopped taking orders!" > On 12/28/2022 6:42 PM CST Will Cooke via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > > On 12/28/2022 6:21 PM CST Chris via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > > > > I do seem to recall some off the wall looking case in the articles. I'm not > > going to reread them right now. I was under the misconceived assumption > > these would all be foumd in such a case. > > > Apparently they sold a LOT of them, according to Steve in this article: > Let me warn any budding entrepreneurs that these four events test your > gambling tactics more than your business acumen. In my case, Ciarcia’s > Circuit Cellar was the product 30 years ago, along with the supporting > manufacturing company. It grew quickly and afforded certain luxuries (e.g., > Porsches, BMWs, Ferraris, etc.) typically necessary in our culture to > designate achievement. Too little business was not an issue. > > Will I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men. Nikola Tesla
