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On 4/3/2012 8:13 AM, Gene Wirchenko wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:42:02 -0500, "Nasser M. Abbasi"<nma@12000.org>
> wrote:
>
>> On 4/2/2012 7:02 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>
>>> I think people actually like their PC's!
>
>> "There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home."
>>
>> Ken Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment Corporation.
>>
>> I guess he also believed in "cloud" computing as well.
>
>       No, it is just that there was no perceived need for computers in
> the home.  In these days of computer saturation, that may be hard to
> understand, but it was so.

There was not even a perceived need for *computing* in the home.

Patricia