[thulldud]

IT management in the corporations were almost uniformly hostile to the introduction of the early microcomputers and personal computers, because they were trained to rely upon mainframe computers and networks.

A saying of the time was, "You can hook a thousand chickens to your plow, or one horse."

Nowadays, if anybody has a "horse" they use it to imitate a thousand "chickens".

[WhiskeyX]

I like that one.

The cliched retort to our criticism of IBM’s decision to limit the IBM PC-XT to a maximum of 10MB of storage space for its hard drive was the claim that was all that the New York Stock Exchange needed for their storage. After rolling our eyes, our counter-retort was “We’ll see about that.”