The Worst Business Decisions of All Time

Wall Street 24X7 ^ | 10/16/2012 | Douglas A. McIntyre, Ashley C. Allen, Samuel Weigley and Michael B. Sauter

[Tublecane]

Making fun of people for not predicting the future is a bit mean. Maybe ten years from now we’ll use our toilets to read people’s minds, or some other insane new setup. You won’t have been an idiot for failing to predict it.

[morphing libertarian]

PARC was indeed running a LAN connected to a printer in Palo Alto.

The guy I mentioned invented the features I mentioned.

[rmlew]

Xerox created the first PC with a GUI, the Xerox Alto in 1973. They used it in house. The only constructive thing they did with it was to show it to Steve Jobs.
Xerox did come out with a business pc, they introduced one runing CP/M. Xerox then tried to go after businesses with a development of the Alto, the Xerox_Star, which cost more than most cars in 1981.

[West Texas Chuck]

Funny, that photo of the Stooges. Ted Healy made a terrible business decision when he fired them. I mean, who remembers Ted Healy, but Larry, Moe and Curly (or Shep), everybody knows who they were.