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I think that it would be hard to find knowledgeable employees to sell everything. The sales process would be way more technical. When they started selling computers nobody knew much about them.

It would be a dream job for a young ham but a disaster for a corporate guy putting together training for non-ham employees that would be making minimum wage.


jottinger
I worked at one of their computer centers - I wasn't a great salesman either, because I didn't want to sell something to someone who didn't want it, but I did all right. They had a heyday and blew it.

I gotta admit, though: the TRS-80 series was a wonder, all told. You could legit go from a Model I to a 6000 running a full UNIX (Okay, it was XENIX, but still!)

You'd never WANT to do that - even running the 6000 on XENIX was a bad idea compared to running XENIX on an 80386, never mind that it was XENIX. This was back before SCO turned evil, anyway. But you COULD!

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