”, or Thomas Watson of IBM declaring in 1943, “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.”

而IBM公司的托马斯·沃森则在1943年宣称:“我认为全世界对电脑的需求量大概是五台左右。”

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Customers were happy to buy electric "calculating machines", as Thomas Watson senior insisted on calling them, from the same firm that had sold them their electromechanical predecessors.

客户乐于从曾今出售给他们老式机电计算设备的公司购买电子“计算机器”——老沃森坚持用这个叫法。

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His assistant,Thomas Watson, was in another.

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That's right, that NCR--the 117-year-old cash register firm where Thomas Watson worked before he went off to run IBM.

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It came to market in the 1960s and surpassed the hopes of IBM's very own CEO, Thomas Watson Jr.

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So in early 1950, it set up a meeting with Thomas Watson Sr.

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