How Computer Companies Worked in the Nineties

How they worked was simple - they got funding, used up their funding - and then went out of business, having accomplished little. Meanwhile, some of the higher-ups in those companies - got rich. No secrets here.

Adaptec, who I worked for, for awhile - made some fine adapters for Desktop computers. Huge things, three feet tall - that were displaced by the Laptop computer, that did not need adapters.

Adaptec should have gone out of business, right then. But it was taken over by a new crew, that were determined to milk it to death. Which they did. They produced a lot of defective products, meanwhile, because they could produce nothing else. Bad guys make bad stuff.

Some of them, such as Sun Microsystems, were straight shooters, and developed some fine products, such as the Java programming language, that is still being used today. But it could not compete with Microsoft - who shut it down.

I must say a few words about Microsoft - a strange mixture of good and bad. I am using the Windows operating system to write this - and Microsoft updates this, almost every day. It is responsible for Typescript, a fine product that Google uses for its Angular product.

Google and Microsoft are now buddies (in the 21st Century) and everyone is happy about this. Maybe things will work out afterall.