C'MON, GUYS, TELL US ABOUT THE FUTURE...

 

"Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1 1/2 tons."

- Popular Mechanics, March 1949

"640K ought to be enough for anybody."

- Bill Gates, 1981

 

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."

- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977

 

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."

- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943