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To: American Spirit who wrote (13715)	10/20/1999 9:32:00 AM
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Question: How do you buy an IBM computer over the internet when you don't have a computer???? And how do such decisions pass the board rooms??? To quote a Xerox commercial: "Daddy, you need to get out more." NEWS: IBM To Halt U.S. PC Retailing, Focus On Web By Eric Auchard NEW YORK (Reuters) - Personal computer pioneer International Business Machines Corp (NYSE:IBM - news). Tuesday said it will stop selling its consumer PCs in U.S. stores in early 2000 and redouble its focus on Internet sales. IBM left the door open to resume sales in the fiercely competitive U.S. retail arena, once it develops a profitable formula for selling consumer desktop PCs on store shelves, where prices have plunged over the past year, a company spokeswoman said. IBM sells its desktop consumer PCs under the brand name Aptiva. ''We plan to pull Aptivas out of the U.S. retail channel in the U.S.,'' etc. etc. etc.

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