[TUHS] core

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Sat Jun 16 09:05:09 AEST 2018


On Fri, 15 Jun 2018, Noel Chiappa wrote:

> This story repets itself over and over again, though: one of the 
> Watson's saying there was a probably market for <single-digit> of 
> computers; Ken Olsen saying people wouldn't want computers in their 
> homes; etc, etc.

I seem to recall reading somewhere that these were urban myths...  Does 
anyone have actual references in their contexts?

E.g. Watson was talking about the multi-megabuck 704/709/7094 etc, and I 
think that Olsens's quote was about the DEC-System 10...

-- Dave, who has been known to be wrong before



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