michael brown wrote:

> > > After all the world was going to
> > > need only three mainframe computers...

> > It was IBM !!!
> > (And I think it was  few more than 3, but not many).

> It was three.

Dad is an engineer from the vacuum tube mainframe era.
When I got interested, circa 1960 or so, I read through
his library, which goes back to the '40s: "Proceedings",
"Transactions", and so on.
There were many such prognostications.
The one that happened to stick with me projected govt
data processing growing to require 12 computers!

Musta been a democrat :)

regards, Jack

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