10 Feb
2010
10 Feb
'10
5:01 p.m.
From: Ethan Dicks
Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 1:56 PM
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Chuck Guzis
<cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
> On 10 Feb 2010 at 16:40, Dave McGuire wrote:
>> ...or was it TJ Watson of IBM? I'm
pretty sure that was his quote.
> It's often attributed to Watson, but the
attributions are all from
> the 1980s. There's no solid evidence that he ever said it.
I'm pretty sure it was David Sarnoff of RCA, but I
don't have any
scholarly references to back that up.
Actually, before I checked a few minutes ago, I thought you were *both*
wrong, and that it was a UNIVAC market survey that gave that result.
That's what I was told about 40 years ago, anyway...
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Server Engineer
Vulcan, Inc.
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