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Computer History
"How could this (Y2K) be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?" - Al Gore
"Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons." - Popular Mechanics, 1949
"Get your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product." - Joe Keenan, President of Atari, responding to Steve Jobs' offer to sell him rights to the personal computer he and Steve Wozniak had developed. 1976
"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home." - Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation), Convention of the World Future Society in Boston, 1977
"640k ought to be enough for anybody." - Bill Gates, 1981
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