[OT] Operating Environment Survey [Kubuntu Linux]

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#1

and going back further to the 1940-'50s,
          IBM thought that there would not be any market for these machines
outside of financial & scientific researchers :wink:

#2

that is, why they don't make much money these days... =)

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#3

IBM was looking at the market potential at that specific point in time,
especially as it related to the cost of the individual computers.
Today, we'd call that the top end of the super-computer/super-cluster
market.

It was only in the mid-sixties that corporate use of computers took off,
and even then, most computer experts didn't think that individual would
be using computers, basically on the grounds that computers would be too
expensive for individuals. Maybe a few programmers would have
hand-me-downs from where they worked, but that would be about the extent
of personal computer usage.

Not even the science fiction of the fifties and sixties anticipated that
by the end of the twentieth century, computers would be as ubiquitous
as they were.

jonathon

#4

I have a "Tricorder" app for my Android phone. :wink:

#5

"In 1967 the Philco-Ford Corporation released a short film titled 1999 A.D. In it the inevitable advances of the future are demonstrated."

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RRxqg4G-G4>

warning: proceeded by an advertisement.

f.