[SunRescue] Rant on industry employment practices, was RE: 16 MB memory module for Voyager

[Cyrus M. Reed]

On 8 Jan 2001, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> > > LOL!! I seem to recall a quote from IBM where they said there wouldn't be
> > > more than a few computers needed world wide IIRC......
> > 
> > "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers"
> > Thomas Watson, Charmain of IBM (1943)
> 
> '43?  Are you sure?  I could have sworn that was from before WWII.

Well, that's what the webpage I found it on said. ;)  I could remember
most of it, just not the number of computers, who said it, and when.  So,
no, I'm not exactly sure, but it sounded right to me.

-Cyrus