Posted by Martin Mandl - m2m tech support on 02/14/07 14:10

On Feb 14, 9:58 am, Toby A Inkster <usenet200...@tobyinkster.co.uk>
wrote:
> Martin Mandl - m2m tech support wrote:
>
> > When that teacher was in school himself, he was told there would be no
> > need for more than 3 computers on the whole world.
>
> The oft-quoted statements was actually that there would only need to be
> about *five* computers. The statement is generally attributed to Thomas J
> Watson in the 1940s, though there is very little evidence he said anything
> of the sort. Indeed, it would have been career suicide, given that he was
> general sales manager of IBM at the time. (And later became president of
> the company.)

Well, I quoted my teacher ;)

But you see, what comes out when people think they have absolute
knowledge ...

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