Just realized that old "no one will ever need more than 640KB" quote was real

I was digging through some old computer magazines at a flea market in Des Moines last weekend. Found a 1981 issue of InfoWorld where Bill Gates supposedly said 640K is all anyone will ever need. Turns out he never actually said that, it was a misquote from someone else. But the article itself predicted personal computers would top out at 2MB of RAM for businesses. I bought the magazine for $3 and it's now sitting on my desk as a reminder. Has anyone else found a bad prediction in print that just made you laugh?

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johnson.lee10h ago

Yeah, because who actually drops $3 on old magazines anymore?

troyjackson5h ago

Read that IBM's founder once predicted the world only needed five computers total.

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