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[Richard Knoppow]

      I love this.   I don't have any quotes but if you ever look over 
the archive of popular technical magazines of the 1930s, especially the 
Hugo Gernsback ones, they have a section predicting the world in 25 or 
fifty years.   Its amazing what people thought they would want.

On 6/22/2015 10:18 AM, tony.podrasky wrote:
> GM OMs
>
> I have that as a quote from IBM.
>
> Here is my favorite quote (re: computers):
>
> There is no reason for any individual
> to have a computer in their home
> -Ken Olsen, President, Digital Equipment,
> Convention of the World Future Society, 1977
>
> This happened to be the year that I bought my
> first Data General Nova 1200 - at $5,000 - which
> would be about $50,000 in today's money!
>
> Other than W6FFC, I don't believe that anyone else
> had a computer in their shack.
>
> On 06/22/2015 09:57 AM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
>> On Mon, 22 Jun 2015, Jeffrey D Angus wrote:
>>
>> My favourite is "There is a world market for maybe four computers" where
>> the rider "of this type" is conveniently left off.
>>
>
> Here are a couple more quotes that I have as .sigs.
>
> (I kinda "have it in" for The New York Times, which at one
> time honored their slogan "All The News That's Fit To Print"
> but now, well, I'll leave any comments up to you...
>
>
> Professor Goddard does not know the relation between
> action and reaction and the need to have something
> better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems
> to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high
> schools.             -New York Times editorial, 1921
>
>
> The flying machine which will really fly might be
> evolved by the combined and continuous efforts of
> mathematicians and mechanicians in from one million
> to ten million years. -New York Times, October 9, 1903
> (the same day that the Wright brothers began assembly)
>
>
> -- 
>
> MicroSoft error messages written in Haiku:
>
>             Program aborting:
>     Close all that you have worked on.
>           You ask far too much.
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