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Old February 10th 14, 06:53 PM posted to sci.engr.color,sci.image.processing,rec.photo.darkroom,rec.photo.digital,comp.soft-sys.matlab
Michael Black[_2_]
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Default my take on Kodak downfall

On Mon, 10 Feb 2014, Paul Ciszek wrote:


In article ,
nospam wrote:
In article , Dale
wrote:

having worked there

consumer film was where the big money was


the key is the word *was*.

although kodak pioneered digital photography, they completely failed to
manage the transition to digital and went bankrupt.


The second mouse gets the cheese.

Sometimes the third or fourth.

But that's a good analogy, the computer mouse didn't take off till the
Macintosh in 1984, when it had been demonstrated in 1968 (so it had to
exist before that) and work done on it at PARC.

Michael