"Real Gagnon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I'd be VERY surprised if IBM predicted that there would be only 5 > > COMPUTERS in *2000* - perhaps you mean 5 *manufacturers* of computers? > > - unless the prediction was made a VERY long time ago. I think you are > > giving a badly-mangled version of something I saw when I worked at > > IBM. > > "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." ~ IBM Chairman > Thomas Watson, 1943. > > ref : http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Computers > > Bye.
I stand corrected; I understated the world market by 2 units and was 4 years late in my guesstimate for the timing of the quote :-) Oh well, not bad for something I read 10 years ago.... Rhino -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
