On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 10:26 PM Tomasz Rola via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > I guess we are all prisoners of our own mental frame. I recall that > Ken Olsen (DEC founder), once quipped "There is no reason for any > individual to have a computer in his home." - that was in 1977, > according to wikiquote: > > https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ken_Olsen
One version of that story is he told it to David Ahl who was trying to pitch a <$2000 PDP-8 for the home market (IIRC a configuration like a 4-slot box with a KK8A, some basic I/O and a smallish MOS RAM card - too small to compete with a "real" PDP-8 system). Ken's reaction was an element of what led to David going off to found Creative Computing, as the story goes. -ethan
