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• I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
  Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943...
• I think there is a world market for maybe 5 computers. -- Thomas Watson, IBM boss, 1943
• I think there's a world market for about five computers.
  -- attr. Thomas J. Watson (Chairman of the Board, IBM), 1943...
• Contrasting this modest effort [of Seymour Cray in his laboratory to build the CDC 6600] with 34 people including the janitor with our vast development activitie
  I fail to understand why we have lost our industry leadership position by letting someone else offer the world's most powerful computer....
• We see a total global market of between 5 to 10 computers. IBM, 1945
• CPU Wars /C-P-U worz/ n. A 1979 large-format comic by Chas Andres chronicling the attempts of the brainwashed androids of IPM (Impossible to Program Machines) to conquer and destroy the peaceful denizens of HEC (Human Engineered Computers).
  This rather transparent allegory featured many references to ADVENT and the immortal line "Eat flaming death, minicomputer mongrels!...
• CPU Wars: /C-P-U worz/ n. A 1979 large-format comic by Chas Andres chronicling the attempts of the brainwashed androids of IPM (Impossible to Program Machines) to conquer and destroy the peaceful denizens of HEC (Human Engineered Computers).
  This rather transparent allegory featured many references to {ADVENT} and the immortal line "Eat flaming death, minicomputer mongrels!...
• IBM PS/1 - The EDLIN of Computers!
• Microsoft: Contract programming house for IBM, and primary sustainer of the clone market.
  IBM pays MS to write fancy software, then MS tweaks it a little, slaps the MS logo on it, and sells it to all the clone folks so they can keep competing with IBM....