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Basic Stamp Web Browser - predictions

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edited 2003-12-28 22:54 in General Discussion
--- In basicstamps@yahoogroups.com, "franksmith512"
<franksmith512@y...> wrote:
> --- In basicstamps@yahoogroups.com, "Robert Staph" <rstaph@d...>
> wrote:
> > Something like that could never be done with the basic or javelin
> stamp.
>
> 1959 Old what his name at IBM said their would never be more than a
> handful of computers made.

Oddly enough, if one thinks of the Internet as a large scale computer
then we are approaching one global computer for the peoples.

Figuring another for the military, um... lemme see... one.. plus
one.. that's 2 right ?

At the time, everything was a terminal off of one mainframe. Seems
we may eventually get back to that, just on a really global scale.


> 1979 IBM said their would never be more than 10,000 PC made. LOL.
> Maybe per hour.

Funny, in 1938, TIME made Hitler Man of the Year, go figure.


>
> 1999 IBM marketing group said there will never be a demand of
> computers that boot from a network. This too will be proven wrong.

I hope this is not wrong. I preferr to have control over how my
stuff is booted and what gets loaded.

Didn't someone predict you would not own any software, but actually
lease it from the web ? I guess if your check to M.S. didn't clear
you couldn't use paypal to get back on line.. oh, the irony.

Some preditctions are better to not happen.

Dave
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