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Originally Posted by fargon
The Transistor was invented by Bell Labs not IBM.
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Where is any implication that IBM developed the transistor? Apparently the esoteric point (ie objectives of fundamental research verses creating a useful products) was overlooked.
Google has done something that other once successful companies did and do no more - ie GM, Sears, Xerox, and GE. And the so many that are now gone because they stopped doing it - ie Kodak, CDC, Unisys, ship builders, TWA, Pullman, AT&T, Goodrich, Polaroid, and various steel manufacturers.
Gravdigr's citation makes a same point. That point was quoted.