>I worked for a mainframe software company in downtown Chicago at the time and tried to talk them into introducing a PC version. We sold our software for half a million or 2 million plus and nobody wanted to hear about a 25K version which would run on what one of my work buddies called a toy computer. The moving finger writes and having writ moves on. (Omar Khayyam).

I worked for a company years ago that had a mainframe - a Unisys 1170. When PC's first started appearing, myself and a friend of mine who also worked there went to the owners of the company and explained (or TRIED to explain) that we needed to write a pc front-end system because all our clients would be running away from our mainframe in favor of PC's. Sadly the guys in charge were convinced that it would "always be cheaper for clients to buy time on a mainframe than to own their own computers". Less than a year later we'd lost 1/2 our clients - and not long after that they were out of business. Shame too - over 70 people worked for that company when they went under. I was actually one of the few employees that got out of there without them owing me my last paycheck.