mark@umcp-cs.UUCP (Mark Weiser) (05/13/86)
Someone was looking for the source of a quotation. I can't remember
where they posted their request, but here is the answer, sort of:
In the book "The Experts Speak" by Christopher Cerf and Victor Navasky,
Pantheon Books, N.Y.C., 1984, page 208, it is stated:
"I think there is a world market for about five computers"
- remark attributed to Thomas J. Watson, Chairman of the
Board of International Business Machines, 1943.
They quote as THEIR reference a book by Morgan and Langford, "Facts and
Fallacies", page 44. I have not tried to follow this up.
I hope this helps whoever it was with whatever it was.
-mark
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