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How Two Bored 1970s Housewives Helped Create the PC Industry
harrymcc writes: One of the first significant PC companies was Vector Graphic. Founded in 1976, it was an innovator in everything from industrial design to sales and marketing, and eventually went public. And alone among early PC makers, it was founded and run by two women, Lore Harp and Carole Ely. Over at Fast Company, Benj Edwards tells the story of this fascinating, forgotten company.
I started reading the article, because I usually know how these bored housewife stories on the internet go. Imagine my shock when I got to the end and it was still talking business. Even the man with the porn stache called Adam Osborne didn't lead to anything.
"Meanwhile, Bob Harp felt the media paid too much attention to the fact that Carole and Lore were women, when it was he, in fact, who made the company possible with his hardware designs."
And they're correct! Computers and digital devices are misogynistic by design. They have no support at all for female accessibility features, like breast gesture recognition or a labia-actuated input device. Don't try and tell me these things were omitted by accident. Steve Jobs named one of his first computers LISA, a woman's name, because he saw computers like he viewed women - something to buy, sell, and use.
The PC industry is sexist. Only Slashdot can save it now by running more articles exposing the hatred built into every computer, tablet, and phone.
At least it's not: "Typewriter manufacturers hate them! See this one weird device two bored housewives came up with!"
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So with all those mistakes, it's basically like every other business ever.
We call those "Management" and we speak ill of them when they are not around.