By Rob Enderle
July 8th, 2008

But this got me thinking about where the future of this will lead and reminded me of what made IBM powerful in the first place, including what brought us Cable TV, both of which had similar models. Let’s start with cable and then move to IBM.

This reminded me a little bit of how cable TV got off the ground. The first thing I got was a service called OnTV and it provided an early single channel HBO-like experience (no on-demand). Coupled with someone who knew how to program an early VCR (there weren’t many of us) you could generally watch at least one movie a week when you wanted to watch it. If I recall correctly, this initial service cost about $10 a month and that was in the early 80s. For that price you got a set-top box and an antenna (which was kind of a pain to get installed at the ...

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