In article ,
Eric Stevens wrote:

On Sat, 16 Sep 2017 20:16:20 -0400, nospam
wrote:

In article , 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.

We were slow in the north. Heard of stupid Swedes? The first Swedish
computer, G1 was called BARK and not operational until 1950, they say.
The G2 BESK was delayed way into 1953:

G2 BESK in operation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFTU0zmNH3s

https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/BESK

https://translate.google.com/transla...translate.goog
le.com&sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/BESK

For Erich:

http://tinyurl.com/yalcnfka
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