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Article #625110Re: Microsoft's PDP-10s
From: Quadibloc
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2018 22:25
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2018 22:25
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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
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