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To: Red Scouser who wrote (54789)	3/25/1999 7:47:00 AM
From: rupert1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

Neil:++++++++++OT++++++++++++++++ Bingo! That's the one - I'd know it anywhere. In South America they had no seats and no division between pilot and body. Just lots of bales of freight and pens with sheep and goats and chickens. In the NWT, they fitted about 20 seats. But imagine how cold it was with the doors wide open waiting for the last passengers to get on. All the in-flight meals were served on a popsicle stick. (joke) (I've got to put "joke" now - still getting PM's from people who believed the story about Prodigy taking over CPQ to get at AV, and the nostril sized PC, the new Sneezario AR-TISH-U). I also think you are right about the Brittania in 1964. I believe I flew BOAC. But I used to island-hop with BWIA so I am not sure. Saw a story and pic in the Echo the other day: local businessmen sponsoring young lads about 16 yrs to go to Dallas, Texas for some kind of summer footie tournament. You know about it?

To: Red Scouser who wrote (54789)	3/25/1999 7:57:00 AM
From: rupert1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

CNB Europe just had a long feature on the state of the PC industry. Usual issues about falling ASP. Opinion varied between analysts who said that the PC is crucial for the development of the internet and the new world of IT and that there is still a large market for the hardware - and the predominant view that we are moving in the direction of the hardware becoming a "loss leader" for companies to sell software, storage, networking and consulting services. I notice in all of these reports it credits IBM with being in the lead in this trend and never mentions COMPAQ's capabilities beyond PC's. It lumps COMPAQ in with the DELL's and the Gateway's searching for a way out of the PC-dependent mess.