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Thread ID: 35619	2003-07-17 09:40:00	OT: PC Quote for the day	Iain Walmsley (3372)	Press F1

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160538	2003-07-17 09:40:00	"Where... the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 Tons, computers in the future may have 1000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh just 1.5 Tons. - Popular Mechanics, March 1949	Iain Walmsley (3372)
160539	2003-07-17 10:43:00	More quotes: “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers” Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 . “There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home” Ken Olson, founder of DEC, 1977 .	Billy T (70)
160540	2003-07-18 02:36:00	"There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of." Bill Gates (slashdot.org), 1980	KiwiTT (4082)
160541	2003-07-18 02:41:00	... "regulators should be inspected for a burnt or melted appearance which is a sure sign of trouble." (not a computer manual, but still relevant).	Graham L (2)
160542	2003-07-18 04:44:00	Some of the best quotes come from the man himself :p "640k ought to be enough for anybody." - Bill Gates 1981 (talking about RAM). "I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time. As the successor to DOS, which has over 10,000,000 systems in use, it creates incredible opportunities for everyone involved with PCs." - Bill Gates in the OS/2 Programmer's Guide "The Internet? We are not interested in it" - Bill Gates, 1993 "Microsoft Products are Generally Bug Free" - Bill Gates "There are people who don't like capitalism, and there are people who don't like PCs, but there's no one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft." - Bill Gates Mike.	Mike (15)
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