The Evolution Of Computing

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

"But what...is it good for?" Engineer, Advanced Computing Systrems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip

"I have travelled the length and breadth of theis country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year." The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp, 1977

"640K ought to be enough for anybody." Bill Gates, 1981

"I think Windows 3.0 will get a lot of attention; people will check it out, and before long they'll all drift back to raw DOS. Once in a while they'll boot Windows for some specific purpose, but many will put it in the closet with the Commodore 64." John Dvorak, 1990

"So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, what do you think about funding us? Or we'l give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary; we'll come work for you.' And they said, No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't gotten through college yet." Apple Computer Inc founder Steven Jobs on attempts to get Atari and HP interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer in 1976

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I dont think so.....
 
There's also this one:

Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons.
unknown, Popular Mechanics, March 1949

and I just thought this way funny-

If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
Robert X. Cringely, InfoWorld magazine
 
did anyone else have an Atari 1600? i used to play games on it on the big floppy discs. it was my dad's, but we had to get rid of it when the disc drive broke because no one had replacement parts for it :(
 
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