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    Snow White and the Seven Digital Dwarfs
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    Snow White and the Seven Digital Dwarfs

    By David Barth

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    About this ebook

    This is a fiction story of how the world’s largest computer company succeeded in the computer mainframe industry while other, smaller companies perished.

    We’ll call the largest computer company “Hal” and the largest and most competitive of the other seven, smaller companies, “Tarzan.”

    Because it was so much larger than the other seven companies, Hal was often referred to as “Snow White,” and the others were called the “Seven Dwarfs.”

    This story shows how inventing a better mousetrap doesn't guarantee success unless a company institutes a great marketing operation.

    The story may sound "real," but it represents the author's opinions which may be erroneous and self-serving.

    In addition, this story is very dry and devoid of anything interesting except to a few people who were in the computer business during the 1960s and 1970s. It is not recommended reading for the average story consumer.

    In this story, the "Hal" computer company is behind the "Tarzan" computer company from a technological standpoint. But Hal was way ahead of Tarzan in its marketing approach.

    In no way is the intent of this story to indicate that one company is better than another company. It is simply a fiction story invented by the author.

    The interesting designs of Tarzan engineers were adopted by computer manufacturers many years ago. This story discusses some of those leading-edge technical designs that are now commonplace in the computer world.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDavid Barth
    Release dateJan 1, 1972
    ISBN9781301002917
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    Snow White and the Seven Digital Dwarfs
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    David Barth

    David V. Barth served in the U.S. Navy from 1960 to 1966, was assigned to a nuclear ballistic missile submarine christened by First Lady Jackie Kennedy, made seven patrols during the Cold War, and was on patrols during the Cuban Missile Crisis and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The computer training and experience in the Navy prepared him for a career as a mainframe computer programmer/analyst (1967 - 2007). He earned a B.S. degree in aviation management/computer science with highest honors from the Metropolitan State University of Denver (1977), a M.S. degree in Business Administration from the University of Northern Colorado (1982), and a Ph.D. in Computer Management Science from Kennedy-Western University (1995). He earned a pilot’s license and became a flight instructor, teaching part-time (1976 - 2004). He was employed in information technology departments of several Denver banks and worked as a consultant for Perot Systems, Accenture, and Computer Sciences Corporation. He was Assistant Director of the Forney Museum of Transportation in Denver, Colorado (2009 – 2011) where he developed web pages of automobile museum collections at barthworks.com. Since 1961 he has written short stories, both fiction and non-fiction, and is a speaker. He has traveled extensively while pursuing his interests in photography and writing.

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