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Old September 17th 17, 10:16 AM posted to rec.photo.digital
Savageduck[_3_]
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On Sep 17, 2017, Eric Stevens wrote
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On Sat, 16 Sep 2017 20:16:20 -0400,
wrote:

In , Eric Stevens
wrote:


"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
Thomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943


what's amazing is how someone so stupid could be president of ibm.


You have to remember exactly what the computers of 1943 were like. You
also have to remember what (little) they could do.


They could compete with an abacus.

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Savageduck