gary@think.COM (Gary Sabot) (01/23/88)
I'm trying to track down a quotation that seems to appear in different forms in different places: "Aiken, for one, was once quoted as suggesting that six of his Mark I's were all the computers the United States needed, that his machine could handle all the computing any scientists wanted to do." (ENGINES OF THE MIND: A HISTORY OF THE COMPUTER (New York: W.W. Norton, 1984, p 217, footnote 8)) Sometimes it is attributed to Howard Aiken, other times to an IBM president, ... Can anyone point me to a primary source for this quote (or even to other secondary sources)? -- gary@think.com