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From: Mark Weiser
Date: Tue, 13 May 1986 04:40
Date: Tue, 13 May 1986 04:40
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Someone was looking for the source of a quotation. I can't remember
where they posted their request, but here is the answer, sort of:
In the book "The Experts Speak" by Christopher Cerf and Victor Navasky,
Pantheon Books, N.Y.C., 1984, page 208, it is stated:
"I think there is a world market for about five computers"
- remark attributed to Thomas J. Watson, Chairman of the
Board of International Business Machines, 1943.
They quote as THEIR reference a book by Morgan and Langford, "Facts and
Fallacies", page 44. I have not tried to follow this up.
I hope this helps whoever it was with whatever it was.
-mark
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!umcp-cs!mark From: mark@umcp-cs.UUCP (Mark Weiser) Newsgroups: net.research Subject: Only 4 computers needed... Message-ID: <1483@umcp-cs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-May-86 00:40:55 EDT Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.1483 Posted: Tue May 13 00:40:55 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 14-May-86 20:38:46 EDT Organization: Computer Sci. Dept, U of Maryland, College Park, MD Lines: 19