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Knuke said it better than me. Back in 1965 our
company paid $1000 bucks for a Friden " colonel Boggy" mechanical
calculator, the big boy with a thousand gears, an absolute work of
art in mechanical computing for flow equations.
Within a year or two, we bought a Sharp electronic
calculator that handled square root etc. for $ 250 bucks. In turn TI introduce
the pocket calc and POOF !! Friden was no more. What happened to
this beautiful manufacturing company.. later Singer bought them and last I heard
they were making postage machines.
The point is that Friden is one of the prime examples of
the changes wrought by technology in the everyday office preceding the computer
revolution. It demonstrated that manufacturing companies can be thrown out with
the trash just like a big mac carton.
Big business are painfully aware of their vulnerability
and are not asleep.. well.. errr..
Richard
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