On 07/22/2015 07:26 PM, anne-ology wrote: > and going back further to the 1940-'50s, > IBM thought that there would not be any market for these machines > outside of financial & scientific researchers ;-)
IBM was looking at the market potential at that specific point in time, especially as it related to the cost of the individual computers. Today, we'd call that the top end of the super-computer/super-cluster market. It was only in the mid-sixties that corporate use of computers took off, and even then, most computer experts didn't think that individual would be using computers, basically on the grounds that computers would be too expensive for individuals. Maybe a few programmers would have hand-me-downs from where they worked, but that would be about the extent of personal computer usage. Not even the science fiction of the fifties and sixties anticipated that by the end of the twentieth century, computers would be as ubiquitous as they were. jonathon -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
