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  3. April 2002

RE: ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

> From: Dr Syd Nicholson
>
> I think IBM has no interest in any of its small business customers, and
> many BP's don't want to know either because there are no revenues in it.
>
> The 150 is definitely a do it yourself machine. Treat it like a PC. IBM
> never sold this machine directly, it always went through a third party.
> Its a great machine, but like the so called portable, it was dead the
> moment it was released because of IBMs attitude towards it.

Syd, it turns out that it would cost me nearly as much to upgrade the 150 to
V5R1 as it would to get a new model 250.  I'm ticked off, but not
particularly surprised.  I'll use the 150 as a V4R5 backup machine, and
upgrade the model 270 to V5R1 when there's a good moment to do so.

Joe

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