Only 4 computers needed...

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1 total messages Started by Mark Weiser Tue, 13 May 1986 04:40

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Author: Mark Weiser
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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