Comment by a-dub

unfortunately, i don't have access to university resources anymore. but i suspect that if someone were to go pull the 1980 annual report for at&t (T) from the proquest historical annual reports database (should be available via online library resources to anyone with an active university affilation) and were to take those financials and the inflation adjust them (perhaps to pre-pandemic times as things are all shifting around right now), and then compared the revenues and profits of the top five largest technology companies in the united states, one would find that they're on a similar scale.

unfortunately i cannot verify that for myself right now.