{"id":1113,"date":"2007-07-21T14:42:43","date_gmt":"2007-07-21T12:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2007\/07\/21\/the-world-needs-only-five-computers\/"},"modified":"2007-07-21T14:42:43","modified_gmt":"2007-07-21T12:42:43","slug":"the-world-needs-only-five-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2007\/07\/the-world-needs-only-five-computers\/","title":{"rendered":"The world needs only five computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The history of this quote is difficult to trace. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/The+world+needs+only+five+computers\/2008-1011_3-6141598.html\">cnet believes it is wrong<\/a> to attribute it to IBM Chairman Thomas J. Watson.<!--more-->Anyway here is a photo that I took in September 1984 in Sheffield, GB &#8211; note the TV screens as we didn\u00c2\u00b4t even have computer screens at all. Since 1986 I was programming a Sharp handheld and later on a Schneider\/Amstrad.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/img001836.jpg\" title='' data-rel=\"key-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img src='https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/img001836.jpg' alt='img001836.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 05.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The history of this quote is difficult to trace. cnet believes it is wrong to attribute it to IBM Chairman Thomas J. Watson. &nbsp; CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 05.04.2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1168,572,1167,304,1166,1165],"class_list":["post-1113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-software","tag-amstrad","tag-computer","tag-computer_screens","tag-history","tag-sheffield","tag-tv_screens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}