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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dragon Drop" data-source="post: 549693" data-attributes="member: 15158"><p>In fact, Remington started out by making guns (in 1816). Then farm equipment, and then sewing machines. Then typewriters (in 1886). Then, in the early 20th century, other companies (such as Kardex, Rand, and Sperry) joined up with Remington, adding accounting/filing equipment and other office supplies to the mix. So it was a business conglomerate for years until it finally got into computers in the 1940's, inspired by ENIAC. It became one of the early giants of the industry, along with makers of office machines (IBM, NCR, Burroughs), electrical appliances (General Electric, Sylvania, Westinghouse), radios (RCA, Philco), military codebreaking devices (Control Data), and cameras (Honeywell). Today, for those going into business, computer manufacturing is a good place to start; but in those old mainframe days, just about every company that made computers had already built itself on some other manufacturing business first. To most of the public back then, computers were just a vague, unfamiliar and mysterious thing; so before they would trust your computers, you had to "prove yourself" by making something more familiar to them, like radios or farm equipment.</p></blockquote><p></p>