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  • Subject: Re: IT Gains Strategic Influence At Playboy
  • From: Dave Shaw <dshaw1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 10:58:59 -0400

-----Original Message-----
From: boothm@ibm.net <boothm@ibm.net>


>In <199808152325_MC2-5633-B585@compuserve.com>, on 08/15/98
>   at 11:22 PM, John Carr <74711.77@compuserve.com> said:
>
>>BTW,  Guess what computer they run on ?
>
>>"Playboy's financial and catalog systems now run on  midrange IBM
>>AS/400s. "
>
>as opposed to what it used to run on, which is...????

If I remember correctly, they were running on S/38's for a LONG time.
Big-time holdouts, even after holding out became utterly stupid.

--
Dave Shaw, General Nutrition, Greenville, SC (just down the road from BMW -
Bubba Makes Wheels :)
The opinions expressed may not be my employer's unless I'm sufficiently
persuasive...


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