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| <b>Thomas J. Watson</b> became head of the CTR company, which later became IBM, and rescued it from near extinction. Prior to that, he worked for ] in charge of its sales force, until he was convicted for illegal anti-competitive sales practices (e.g. he used to have people sell deliberately faulty cash registers, either second-hand NCR or from competitors; soon after the second-hand NCR or competitors cash register failed, an NCR salesperson would arrive to sell them a brand new NCR cash register). He was famous for making his salespeople at both NCR and IBM attend sing-a-longs. | <b>Thomas J. Watson</b> became head of the CTR company, which later became ], and rescued it from near extinction. Prior to that, he worked for ] in charge of its sales force, until he was convicted for illegal anti-competitive sales practices (e.g. he used to have people sell deliberately faulty cash registers, either second-hand NCR or from competitors; soon after the second-hand NCR or competitors cash register failed, an NCR salesperson would arrive to sell them a brand new NCR cash register). He was famous for making his salespeople at both NCR and IBM attend sing-a-longs. | ||
| <p>He is well known for his ] statement: "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers". | <p>He is well known for his ] statement: "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers". | ||
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Thomas J. Watson became head of the CTR company, which later became IBM, and rescued it from near extinction. Prior to that, he worked for NCR in charge of its sales force, until he was convicted for illegal anti-competitive sales practices (e.g. he used to have people sell deliberately faulty cash registers, either second-hand NCR or from competitors; soon after the second-hand NCR or competitors cash register failed, an NCR salesperson would arrive to sell them a brand new NCR cash register). He was famous for making his salespeople at both NCR and IBM attend sing-a-longs.
He is well known for his 1943 statement: "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers".