On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 17:06 -0400, Carlos Bodra - Pessoal wrote:
> "Last mainframe will turned off in 1996!!!!" hahahahaha

That would be Stewart Alsop, quoted in 1991.  He eats his words on page
2 of Jim Elliott's m/f retrospective:
http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/jelliott/pdfs/zhistory.pdf
(How did that photo come to be, Jim?)

> "No more than 640KB is necessary for any computer" hahahahaha

Gates never said it.  See:
http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/1997/01/1484
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Gates

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