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To: jcholewa who wrote (8866)	9/17/2000 5:59:07 PM
From: DRBES	Respond to of 275872

Again 1,000 , 10,000 , or 100,000 all about the same: "a paper release" having no substance other than the embarrassment that was to lead to. We have no difference here. Patient Regards, DARBES

To: jcholewa who wrote (8866)	9/17/2000 11:21:23 PM
From: THE WATSONYOUTH	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Mind you, this reasoning takes a bit of a leap of faith (you have to assume that IBM, the one remaining OEM, wasn't getting thirty to one hundred times as many processors as they got for the 1.00GHz PIII), but I personally think that "one thousand" is much closer than "ten thousand" for the number of 1.13GHz PIIIs that needed to be recalled from OEMs. I called IBM about 3 weeks ago (just before the recall). The salesman told me they sold out their entire allotment of (110) 1.13GHz systems the first day they were offered. Their next scheduled delivery of 1.13GHz parts was not till late Oct and so they removed the 1.13GHz option from their web site. What was equally surprising was that they were receiving only about 40 1GHz parts a week even as late as three weeks ago. I don't know if that is fact but that's what the salesman claimed. THE WATSONYOUTH