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> In 1977, Ken Olsen declared that ‘there is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.’

To be fair, he was talking about big iron mainframes. He envisioned everyone having a dumb terminal in their home rather than a microcomputer (which we effectively call "the pc").




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