The Computer

1.. I think there is a world market for about 5 companies

(remark attributed to Thomas Watson, Chairman IBM , 1943

2..Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vaccum

tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only

1,000 vaccum tubes and weigh one and a half tons (popular Mechs 49

3..What the hell is it good for?, Robert Lloyd (eng at the advanced

Computing Systems Div of IBM ) 1968

4.."We don`t need you, You have not got thro college yet"

(Hew-Pack exc responding to Apple founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wosniak attempts to interest the company in their computer, 1976)

5.Get your feet off my desk, Get outta here, you stink, not buying!!

(Joe Keenan, Pres of Atari rights to new computer - Steve Jobs 1976

6.There is no reason for a individual to have a computer at home.

(Ken Olsen, Pres Digital Equip Corp , at World future soc, Boston 77

*Steve Jobs secured his own financing and launched Wosniaks and his

own personal computer `The Apple 11`, it was an overnight sensation

and before long Atari, Digital and IBM had all launched their own line of microcomputers. By 1996 over 58 million personal computers

were in use in the United States alone.

**Note by Buff to the Buffs and Non-Buffs - probably of interest only to those of us who are non buffs , the buffs will have knowledge.

good - bye

-- Anonymous, March 25, 2001

Answers

Featured on this thread tomorrow night Buff proudly presents>>>>>>>

The experts evaluate the great and near great

The Talent Scouts speak.

Coming shortly `The Evils of Masturbation,Insanity and Worse,

copywright Christopher Cerf and Victor Navasky,,

-- Anonymous, March 25, 2001

Oh dear.....Buff's on the class 'A' again people.....I think its time for bed......night night

-- Anonymous, March 25, 2001

This is Wor Year

BBS author unknown, :-) a few days before Shearer's Goodison injury and a season culminating in relegation struggle.

-- Anonymous, March 26, 2001

Ruud Gullit, for us, honest! Ya belter!
Here we go, here we go, here we goOOOooo

-- Anonymous, March 26, 2001

..... don't worry, Monkey Heed will take the mackems straight back down again.......

-- Anonymous, March 26, 2001

while I never had any specific quote, my support for a certain TSM was misplaced. Although it was certain he destroyed a great side, I'm pretty sure he didn't do this of his own volition, I'm pretty sure a dastardly duo of detested dumm-dumms had a hand in it.....

-- Anonymous, March 26, 2001

Glass will make goals for Big Al,

-- Anonymous, March 26, 2001

Shearer will be even stronger when he comes back from injury (several times this one)

-- Anonymous, March 26, 2001

I once heard (nay I heard every bloody day for weeks on end) "Now you have a Scottish manager you'll win something at last"

-- Anonymous, March 26, 2001

The Experts Evaluate the Great and the Near- Great.

1..Churchill?, He`s a busted flush, (Lord Beaverbrook)

2..I personally believe John Foster Dulles to be a communist agent. (Robert H Welch, industrialiast and founder of the John Birch Soc)

3..Dwight Eishenower, `A dedicated communist agent (Robert Welch)

4..Benjamin Franklin, He has very moderate abilities, knows nothing of philosphy, few experiments in electricity, (John Adams, diary entry

5..Sigmund Freud, `The boy will come to nothing` (His father Jakob after 8 year old Siggy had relieved himself in his bedroom,1864

6..Adolf Hitler, My uncle is a peaceful man ,he thinks war is not worth the candle, (Willie Hitler,nephew 1937}

7..I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as depicted. He is showing an ability that is amazing and he seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed, (Gandhi remark to Amrik 1940)

8..Richard M Nixon,(Sincerity is the quality that comes thro on tv (The Washington Star, 1955).

Carry on with the footy ones while I do a quick count of who is interested in this garbage, hands up pse , hmm hmm , Screacher ,Ciarra Clarky you can put your hands down now , Another selection at w/end before the match kicks off, with thanks to Matty Parris !! BTW, truthfully did anyone out there put their hands up? go on - admit

-- Anonymous, March 26, 2001

My hand is raised sir.

-- Anonymous, March 26, 2001

Can I take my hand down now please, Mr. Buff?

-- Anonymous, March 26, 2001

As you were - class

-- Anonymous, March 26, 2001

One of my favourites:

"The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives".

Admiral Leahy, US Manhattan Project that led to the Atomic Bomb.

And he had a ship - no, an entire class of frigates - named after him for his trouble.

-- Anonymous, March 28, 2001

As a thank you to the good doctor who contributed to this thread , this week I shall include a medical "I wish I hadn`t said that", also its typically topical today , without further ado clutching my Frank Nordern clipboard , a small compilation titled `VACCINATION`

-- Anonymous, March 31, 2001

As a thank you to the good doctor who contributed to this thread , this week I shall include a medical "I wish I hadn`t said that", also its typically topical today , without further ado clutching my Frank Nordern clipboard , a small compilation titled `VACCINATION`

In June 1798 the British physician Edward Jenner published a pamphlet describing how he had immunized 23 patients against smallpox by vaccinating them with matter taken from cowpox postules. There was widespread belief that innicculation with material taken `hot from ye cow` would cause humans to develop animal characteristics.

[Cowpox does not]exercise any specific power against human small pox Prof Ed Cruikshank, King`s College, London 1889.

[Cowpox] was fancifully represented as an amulet or charm against smallpox by the idle gossip of incredulous persons wh listned only to the jingle of names.... `Let us suppose that the glowing end of a cigar be firmly applied to an infants arm...[sore may result which may be called cigar pox.... The cigar pox in its patholgy just as revalent to the small pox as the cowpx is.....Charles Crichton Medical historian 1889 on Jenner.

Jenner`s pioneering work was directly responsible for the saving of millions of lives . Now over 150 years after his death , small pox has been all but entirely eradicated.

-- Anonymous, March 31, 2001

This is great lads! How about some famous last words as well - like King Harold at Hastings: "I spy with my little eye something beginning with "A".

-- Anonymous, March 31, 2001

More! More! (:o)

-- Anonymous, April 01, 2001

With Galaxy shouting for more , more , it may be the opportune moment to move on to music , stay with me and after the break a section on -

ROCK `N` ROLL: a PASSING FAD OR THE MUSIC LIVES ON, AND ON ,AND ON

1..The big question in the music business today is "how long will it last?"... It is our guess that it won`t [Casbox, trade journal 1955

2..It will be gone by June, Maybe next year it will be Hawaiian music [Jerry Marshall, DJ,Radio wnew in New York City 1953.

3..THE BEATLES..We don`t like their sound, Groups of guitars are on the way out [Decca Rec Excutive turning down the Beatles 1963.

4..THE BEATLES..We don`t think they will do anything in this market, [Alan Livingstone Pres Capitol Records, eve of first US tour 1964

5..BUDDY HOLLY..The biggest no-talent I ever worked with. [Paul Cohen, A and R man for Decca as he fired Buddy in 1956] *20 years later Rolling Stone called Holly along with Chuck Berry the major influence of rock music in the 60`s.

6..You`ll sink, not like a lead ballon,faster like a lead zeppelin. [Keith Moon to Jimmy Page that new group with Plant and Bonham had no chance of success] 1968

7..John Lennon `You`ll never work again![Allan Williams,1st man 1961]

8..ELVIS..`You ain`t goin nowhere...son. You ought to go back to drivin a truck [Jim Denny, manager of the Grand Ole Opry ,1954]

9..STONES. `The singer will have to go` [Eric Easton new manager of the stones remark to partner Andrew Oldham assessing Mick`s value to the group in 1963 ], to complete this section and moving swiftly on, no 10 is a classic from the classics.

10.IGOR STRAVINSKY,, `Ou donc ont-ils, ces salauds -la ?].......... Comoedia review of premier of his The Rite of Spring.,Paris 1913 *Rough translation: _____ __ ___ ______ ___ _ ___ ___ __? ANSWERS

BB`s Watchdog , Due to the family audience the compilation of quotes on the subject of masturbation has been concealed/ cancelled

-- Anonymous, April 01, 2001

"10.IGOR STRAVINSKY,, `Ou donc ont-ils, ces salauds -la ?].......... Comoedia review of premier of his The Rite of Spring.,Paris 1913 *Rough translation: _____ __ ___ ______ ___ _ ___ ___ __? ANSWERS "

And you call that cr@p music Igor?

-- Anonymous, April 01, 2001

Jacko, cannot accept your answer - goodbye - BTW the goalscorer for Bristol City -v- Your lot yesterday was one of our ex locals, Scott Murray, (ex Villa) , still young , if you see him play anytime would be interested in report.

-- Anonymous, April 01, 2001

Scott Murray is a very good player indeed. Very quick and skilful. Scored the goal yesterday by ghosting into space on the far post. I remember last season when Bristol played the Icelandic national team (aka Stoke City) in the Autowindscreens final at Wembley he ran the Sjoke defence ragged - unfortunately Bristol still lost.

And by the way - they are not "my lot" they are either "Mr Jacko's lot" or "my other lot"!!

-- Anonymous, April 01, 2001

Apologies indeed Jacko, in future your 2nd fav team, the rough trans- lation is "Where did these turkeys learn to write music anyway",is it?

-- Anonymous, April 01, 2001

I can see light at the end of the tunnel,

[Gordon Strachan following victory after run of defeats, March 2,001

I can see light at the end of the tunnel, or tsk tsktsk,tsk,tsk tsk

[Skippy the Australian Bush Kangaroo, remark to Buff,Film Critic 2,000

Come and see the light at the end of the tunnel.

[official invitation to the New Years Eve party at the US Embassy in Saigon 1967] **One month after the party a large portion of the Embassy was in the hands of the enemy troops.

A year ago none of us could see victory. There wasn`t a prayer, Now we can see it clearly --like light at the end of a tunnel. [Lt Gen Henri-eugene Navarre C in C of the French Unionist Forces in Indo China,quoted in Time Sept 1953.

-- Anonymous, April 02, 2001