RE: Wall Street Journal Ad for AS/400

I've  seen a  firm  by  lots of PCs  from the home Shopping  Network - of
all things.
 Reasoning  was rather convoluted to say the least.

At 01:42 PM 9/30/98 -0800, you wrote:
>Don't laugh.  At a client location at which I was working, 30+ Xerox
>Docucenters were purchased as a result of a TV ad...
>
>Jack Bogart
>UNIX Systems Administrator
>Phone 265-5516;  Pager 268-7657
>
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>> From:        Chuck Lewis[SMTP:CLEWIS@IQUEST.NET]
>> Sent:        Wednesday, September 30, 1998 11:50 AM
>> To:  MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
>> Subject:     Re: Wall Street Journal Ad for AS/400
>> 
>> You're not pulling our leg Dave ? <BG>
>> 
>> ABOUT TIME !!!
>> 
>> I can see it now (where I used to work and where we had a 530 and a 500),
>> the
>> company exec walks into IS and say, "Hey, look at this add in todays
>> Journal - do
>> you think we should get one of these AS/400's things... ?" :-)  :-(
>> 
>> Dave Mahadevan wrote:
>> 
>> > Folks:
>> >
>> > I just saw a full page ad in the Wall Street Journal in the Marketplace
>> > section.  This has a guy thinking with a tiny AS/400 on the side and
>> > talks about data mining.  Good job IBM.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Thank You.
>> >
>> > Regards
>> >
>> > Dave Mahadevan.. mailto:mahadevan@fuse.net
>> >
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