RE: Wall Street Journal Ad for AS/400

The old PS/2 L40SX Laptops?  You mean when HSN was selling them for $1400
and IBM's resellers were buying them from IBM for $1900?  Yeah, that was
around May of '92.

Jack Bogart
UNIX Systems Administrator
Phone 265-5516;  Pager 268-7657

> ----------
> From:         Glenn Ericson[SMTP:Glenn-Ericson@att.net]
> Sent:         Wednesday, September 30, 1998 9:31 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      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
> >
> >> ----------
> >> 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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