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To: Cary Salsberg who wrote (45708)	4/21/2001 11:42:27 AM
From: Gottfried	Respond to of 70976

Cary, >In the early 1980s, $50B IBM geared up to reach $100B revenues in the next 5 years< I remember management telling us that then. In San Jose it led to building the largest manufacturing building west of the Mississippi, in the days of 14" disk drives. Then in 1992-4 IBM lost $564.0, $6865, $7987 respectively [millions]. quicken.com But in the '80s there was an atmosphere of invincibility at IBM, probably similar to Cisco a year ago. It would be fascinating to see what IBM company news was then. Gottfried