Re: Microsoft's PDP-10s

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From: Rich Alderson
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2018 20:00

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David Wade <g4ugm@dave.invalid> writes:

> On 30/07/2018 23:25, Quadibloc wrote:

>> I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
>> - Attributed to Thomas J. Watson (Sr.), but likely spurious

> That was supposed to be in 1943 when no one had built a computer that 
> stored its program in RAM.

Actually, no, this is a 1960's or later misremembering of something which TJW
*did* say, in a shareholders' report in the early 1950s about the marketing
trip he made touting the IBM 701, their first "scientific" computer.  He
reported that they visited 20 potential customers, expecting to get orders from
maybe 5 of them, and was pleasantly surprised to get 19.

-- 
Rich Alderson					  ne...@alderson.users.panix.com
      Audendum est, et veritas investiganda; quam etiamsi non assequamur,
	  omnino tamen proprius, quam nunc sumus, ad eam perveniemus.
									--Galen

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Subject: Re: Microsoft's PDP-10s
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