Re: Delphi in more schools (was Re: Microsoft here I come)


"Wayne Niddery [TeamB]" <wniddery@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Dan Barclay wrote:

There is definitely an influence. "Determine" is probably too strong
a word. I think I've mentioned this example before, but I've always
bought Tektroniks oscilloscopes. That's what we had in our labs in
college, they were good, and I knew that. I *didn't* know that about
the competitors (they may have been fine, I just had no experience).

Dan, if Tektroniks oscilloscopes were rarely, if ever, used in the
corporate world, do you think your college would have been using them, or
is it more likely they would they have used another of the brands that
*was* in common use?

I don't know if, at the time, Tektroniks was "the vendor" of industry or not
(1969 and thereabouts). It would probably depend on the price of outfitting
the EE lab building, the amount of help with training materials, and the
rest of the sales pitch. There was, errr... more than one scope at the Univ
of Texas <vbg>. They certainly weren't the first company to sell scopes. I
bought a couple of Dumont scopes as surplus military for $20 during that
time<g>.

As I think I said in the previous message "Chicken... Egg".

I can only relate to you the impact it had on me as a student going through
there.

Dan


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