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To: JC who wrote (2572)6/20/1997 2:46:00 PM
From: Craig Stein   of 213182
 
The Macintosh News Network site relayed the following info:

Jesse B sent us a report of a very large PowerBook 3400 purchase:

I have an unconfirmed report that Phillip Morris is set to buy up to 7000 Apple Powerbook 3400's to replace their aging Duos and 170's for their Salesforce. PM is an all Mac company and if true then this would be one of the largest single laptop purchases for *any* company ever.

I did some checking with some friends and an un-named source within Apple reponded with this:

> Yes, it's true. They are presently working to pull together a
> marketing effort based upon this major win and a few others.
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