16 Jun
2018
16 Jun
'18
5:05 a.m.
On Fri, 15 Jun 2018, Noel Chiappa wrote:
This story repets itself over and over again, though:
one of the
Watson's saying there was a probably market for <single-digit> of
computers; Ken Olsen saying people wouldn't want computers in their
homes; etc, etc.
I seem to recall reading somewhere that these were urban myths... Does
anyone have actual references in their contexts?
E.g. Watson was talking about the multi-megabuck 704/709/7094 etc, and I
think that Olsens's quote was about the DEC-System 10...
-- Dave, who has been known to be wrong before