In article , Alan Browne
wrote:


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

what's amazing is how someone so stupid could be president of ibm.


That's not stupidity, it's perception. What a "computer" was in 1943
was a handwired to task monster. Change programs? Start re-wiring for
a few days and de-bugging for many more.

sure, but anyone with even half a clue would have realized technology
would advance beyond that.

thinking that's how it would always be is why it's so stupid.