[theDentist]

Olsen made one of those statements which showed he could be as shortsighted as the next guy: "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."

No one's perfect...

[chimera]

Yeah, but isn’t it kind of coming back, in a way, with this “cloud computing” idea? That sounds a lot like a dumb terminal talking to other machines “Somewhere Out There”. It isn’t the KO idea, strictly speaking, of a single machine serving a bunch of dumb terminals, unless you extend the idea of a single machine being the “cloud”.

[FReepaholic]

...Olsen made one of those statements which showed he could be as shortsighted as the next guy: "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."...

I was in a Waldens Bookstore back in the early '90s and saw a CompuServe box that touted "Online Shopping". I remarked: "Why the hell would anybody want to buy stuff online?" Ha.

RIP Mr. Olsen. We're still running OpenVMS and have a couple of DECServers left on our network.