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"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home." - CEO of Digital Equipment Corporation, leading computer maker, in 1977. Microsoft was f

• compiler-guy 4y ago
  The quote doesn't end with "and there never will be." Quoting him like this is a little bit like quoting someone in 1900 saying that we don't need gas stations. The Apple II was probably the first reasonable, non-pure-hobbyist home computer, and it didn't appear until 1977. And even then it took another year or two years for useful software to appear.