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Article #625111Re: Microsoft's PDP-10s
From: Bill Findlay
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2018 22:43
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2018 22:43
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On 30 Jul 2018, Quadibloc wrote (in article<86794864-1ef9-40d3...@googlegroups.com>): > On Saturday, July 28, 2018 at 3:03:35 PM UTC-6, JimP wrote: > > We > > decided that no home computyer would ever have a CPU that ran at 1 GHz > > or better, nor have a gigabyte of ram. > > > We were wrong. > > Ah, well. > > I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. > - Attributed to Thomas J. Watson (Sr.), but likely spurious > > There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. > - Kenneth H. Olsen, founder of the Digital Equipment Corporation > > 640K of RAM should be enough for anybody > - Attributed to William H. Gates III, but he has denied it > > I think there are others like it, in this case two out of the three quotes I > could easily find are apparently spurious > > John Savard The famous UK example was that of Prof. Douglas Hartree, a quantum mechanic who pioneered the calculation of atomic and molecular wavefunctions. He is reputed to have said, in 1950: "We have a computer here in Cambridge, one in Manchester and one at the NPL. I suppose there ought to be one in Scotland, but that's about all." -- Bill Findlay
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X-Received: by 2002:a1c:104d:: with SMTP id 74-v6mr116761wmq.12.1532990587220; Mon, 30 Jul 2018 15:43:07 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: alt.folklore.computers@googlegroups.com Received: by 2002:a1c:3582:: with SMTP id c124-v6ls187837wma.6.gmail; Mon, 30 Jul 2018 15:43:06 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:a7b:c012:: with SMTP id c18-v6mr115967wmb.16.1532990586563; Mon, 30 Jul 2018 15:43:06 -0700 (PDT) Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!s23-v6ni19wmc.0!nntp.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Bill Findlay <findl...@blueyonder.co.uk> Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Microsoft's PDP-10s Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2018 23:43:04 +0100 Organization: none Lines: 37 Message-ID: <0001HW.210FCBF8062B8781700007A6F2CF@news.individual.net> References: <pis39j$mii$1@sdf.lonestar.org> <pjfunr$mfr$1@sdf.lonestar.org> <0bdfaae7-ccd1-4617-975c-4994af3ed1a5@googlegroups.com> <930f8190-5ab3-465e-8c51-55a8ace70fe8@googlegroups.com> <slrnplp0gp.4k5.mausg@smaus.org> <20180728174042.a45a47406a109bfc579d70ce@eircom.net> <slrnplp8q2.6ma.mausg@smaus.org> <p2mpld9mmk79329sobc7utv88vb07sgpnv@4ax.com> <86794864-1ef9-40d3-814b-74346ff73b38@googlegroups.com> Reply-To: findl...@blueyonder.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: individual.net 3uKW8HmnndF2QabZcpGc7gammJhJXHs4JP3frU3w7uqgqVXBqy X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:WUEAV2RrSBPsED7559Vd7Us9pnY= User-Agent: Hogwasher/5.19 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit