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Anonymous
lol
>> Anonymous
i wish my pc was hand carved :(
>> Anonymous
MS Dos, the start of the downhill slide to Windows.
>> Anonymous
640K ought to be enough for anonymous!
>> Anonymous
I wonder if they ever carved the rest?
>> Anonymous
>>135731
I believe there is a world market for perhaps five computers
>> Anonymous
>>135914
640K is actually fine for a bunch of industrial computers. I guess some people are used to calling them "embedded systems" and stuff, though.
>> Anonymous
>>135917
quote attributed to Thomas Watson in 1943, founder of IBM. goes along with the memory quote above in the halls of "boy were they wrong" quotes
>> Anonymous
>>135917
also see:

“There is no need for any individual to have a computer in their home.”
[Ken Olson, President of Digital Equipment Corp, in 1977]

“No one will need more than 637 kb of memory for a personal computer. 640K ought to be enough for anybody.”
[Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, in 1981]

“Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.”
[Lord Kelvin, ca. 1895, British mathematician and physicist]

“Radio has no future.”
[Lord Kelvin, ca. 1897]

“Well informed people know it is impossible to transmit the voice over wires and that were it possible to do so, the thing would be of no practical value.”
[The Boston Post in 1865]

“Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.”
[Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949]
>> Anonymous
where did you get the quotes from?
>> Anonymous
>>135922No one will need more than 637 kb of memory for a personal computer. 640K ought to be enough for anybody

I don't think it's fair to label this as a prediction. He probably ment that 640k is enough for then current applications.
>> MistStlkr
>>136537

http://www.goodquotes.info/worst-predictions-ever-dumb-quotes-on-technology.html

I also keep a file on my HDD of quotes I find humerous, I was just too lazy to open it when google-fu did this one