17 Jun
2023
17 Jun
'23
5:26 a.m.
On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 10:26 PM Tomasz Rola via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
I guess we are all prisoners of our own mental frame.
I recall that
Ken Olsen (DEC founder), once quipped "There is no reason for any
individual to have a computer in his home." - that was in 1977,
according to wikiquote:
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ken_Olsen
One version of that story is he told it to David Ahl who was trying to
pitch a <$2000 PDP-8 for the home market (IIRC a configuration like a
4-slot box with a KK8A, some basic I/O and a smallish MOS RAM card -
too small to compete with a "real" PDP-8 system).
Ken's reaction was an element of what led to David going off to found
Creative Computing, as the story goes.
-ethan