10 Feb
2010
10 Feb
'10
1:59 p.m.
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On Feb 10, 2010, at 4:36 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Ken Olsen famously asked who would want a computer at home. If I
recall the story correctly, it was in the context of Dave Ahl trying
to pitch a hobbyist-grade PDP-8/a as a product offering in the
Altair/MITS (pre-Apple/CBM/Tandy) days.
-ethan
Remember David Sarnoff's comment, "I
think there is a world market for
maybe five computers"? ?Perhaps he was just prescient about the
Pro380. ?;-)
?I thought that was Ken Olsen.