[Ads-l] Quote Origin: There Is a World Market for About Five Computers

[dave@wilton.net]

A variation on this that I heard in the 1980s (orally, so there is no written citation), is that it was the Battelle Memorial Institute that did a study determining that there was a world market for only five photocopiers.

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