At 11:19 PM 7/2/1998 -0700, Kathy E. Gill so eloquently stated:
>At 8:54 AM -0400 7/2/98, Rainmaker wrote:
>
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>>> "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
>>> Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
>
I find this statement, which has been attributed to Watson by
many sources, to be either very prophetic or dumb. The computer
wasn't invented until 1946 (ENIAC).
I would really like to know the source of that statement, as I
heard it originally as a quote from somebody at Sperry Rand. The
determined that only major ments would use computers.
George
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