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From: mark@umcp-cs.UUCP (Mark Weiser)
Newsgroups: net.research
Subject: Only 4 computers needed...
Message-ID: <1483@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 13-May-86 00:40:55 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 13 00:40:55 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 14-May-86 20:38:46 EDT
Organization: Computer Sci. Dept, U of Maryland, College Park, MD
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Someone was looking for the source of a quotation.  I can't remember
where they posted their request, but here is the answer, sort of:

In the book "The Experts Speak" by Christopher Cerf and Victor Navasky,
Pantheon Books, N.Y.C., 1984, page 208, it is stated:

"I think there is a world market for about five computers"
	- remark attributed to Thomas J. Watson, Chairman of the 
	Board of International Business Machines, 1943.

They quote as THEIR reference a book by Morgan and Langford, "Facts and 
Fallacies", page 44.  I have not tried to follow this up.

I hope this helps whoever it was with whatever it was.
-mark
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