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To: Don Earl who wrote (11563)	7/21/1998 4:47:00 PM
From: JerryP	Read Replies (1) of 14577

This is old news but I enjoy posting it every once in awhile: Once a week!!!<g> In re: IBM's records..I can remember when IBM sold 20MB disk drives for $20K. For another $10-15K, they'd come out, take the side off the drive, disable the governor on the read-write heads and you now had 40MB!!! I remember when IBM came out with the PS/2...any clone hard drive of about 300MB cost $300-400 and IBM's drive cost @$600.00 And you HAD to use IBM's. And, yes IBM's token-ring runs circles (sorry @pun) Novell's ethernet. But try and get that token-ring hardware in for the cost of the whole Novell or NT network. But then again, IBM is the only one I know that puts out hardware for business. If you ever had the problems with those 360's, 370's, 390's 25-30 years ago, that you have today with pc hardware and operating software, IBM would definitely not be the giant they are today. In "Tomorrow Never Dies" was that scene about releasing the new operating system with purposefuly included bugs to ensure 'upgrades for years to come', just a little jab at Gates? JP Looks like it can only be upWARD.....and "Onward", George.

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