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Evolution of the reseller, part IV: An industry comes full circle

22 November 2012 • 6 min read

Sir Peter Rigby recalls the 1980s and explains how we've come so far today. Fleur Doidge looks for the past yet present.

By 1980 Arpanet - the first working packet-switching network - had managed to acquire 430,000 users, in a small way prefiguring today's exponential cloud computing expansion, and Seagate had introd...

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