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Strategies & Market Trends : Booms, Busts, and Recoveries

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To: elmatador who wrote (8181)9/5/2001 4:48:47 AM
From: smolejv@gmx.net  Read Replies (2) of 74559
 
>>The reason for HP and Compaq << was not to squeeze somebody else's family jewels. Twas their own balls who got caught between the wall of fixed costs and the stone of diminishing revenue. So instead of shrinking separately by 50% they'll make two halfs one whole. But you know what happened to Humpty Dumpty.

My heart bleeds for Bill and Dave - after having done ZUSE, IBM 1340, CDC Cyber, HP 9518 was the first personal machine for me in the 70s.

Re beer - I take your bet on. What about U kalicha, Na bojishti? 5PM? After the war?

(for the unread reader, Im quoting from Schweik, specifically his shouting dialogue with Pan Vodichka, while being marched away again to yet another jail. Plus I understand Elmat is currently consuming beer in Prague).

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