The world needs only five computers

The history of this quote is difficult to trace. cnet believes it is wrong to attribute it to IBM Chairman Thomas J. Watson.Anyway here is a photo that I took in September 1984 in Sheffield, GB – note the TV screens as we didn´t even have computer screens at all. Since 1986 I was programming a Sharp handheld and later on a Schneider/Amstrad.
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