Television created only a handful of Cosbys. Personal computers will create thousands. The 60 million or so PCs placed on U.S. desktops are where the next generation of superrich are setting up their cash registers. Remember that the founders of such hardware producers as Apple Computer, Dell Computer, Tandon Corp., Wang Laboratories and Digital Equipment Corp. all appeared among The Forbes Four Hundred in years past, only to fall by the wayside. The hardware end of the computer industry now depends largely on the silicon equivalent of toting buckets, lifting bales and coordinating armies of salaried gophers who swallow up much of an entrepreneur's revenue.
Software is a different story.
It's where the future money is. Most of these weren't on the list four years ago. To make a mint on software, just think. Think alone, if you can, or at worst with a tiny team of fellow nerds. Run off a million copies on floppy disks, at a cost of a buck or two each.