|
From institute computing history: Of course our first Sun was the Sun, therefore helios ! Other workstations would then be planets (like Hegel, who graduated with a thesis demonstrating on phylosophical basis that the planets shall be seven, exactly in the year when the eighth was discovered, we thought that nine workstations were a huge number, which we will hardly approach, and definitely never exceed ), and PCs would be satellites. So we started with aphrodite, ares and zeus, and selene (at the time, a PC XT). In good company of Thomas J. Watson legendary quote ... "the world will need maybe five computers". |