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- From: njs@scifi.uucp (Nicholas J. Simicich)
- Subject: Re: V.P.-Elect Al Goret
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.150456.13147@scifi.uucp>
- Organization: Nick Simicich, Peekskill, NY
- References: <24031@galaxy.ucr.edu> <RSHOLMES.92Nov21145410@rodan.syr.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 15:04:56 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- In article <RSHOLMES.92Nov21145410@rodan.syr.EDU> rsholmes@rodan.syr.EDU (Rich Holmes) writes:
-
- >No, it's more complicated. In 1938 International Business Mammals
- >introduced the Model 991 General Operational Rodent, Electronic, or
- >GORE, answering the need on the part of American businesses to have a
- >family pet that could be used to back up multi-megabyte disk drives
- >(which did not yet exist, nor would they for quite some time; this was
- >not the last time IBM made the mistake of relying on vaporware.) In
- >1976 they introduced the smaller Multitasking Gorette, later shortened
- >to Goret. After only 37 hours on the market the goret was recalled and
- >all inventory destroyed, for reasons never made clear by IBM's Gore
- >Division chief, Hiram Braxalt, who died in 1977 in a tragic accident
- >involving a 15-ton fork lift and several bowls of grape Jell-O.
- >Several units were never recovered, however, and the rest is history.
- >But as for the VP-elect: his father, Eddie Albert, named his son Gore
- >because he looked like an IBM GORE as an infant (and still does, but
- >that's another story). Upon entering politics, Gore Albert changed his
- >name to Albert Gore to fend off association with Eddie Albert, then
- >embroiled in the so-called "Tennesee gerbil incident" that nearly cost
- >him his career.
- >
- >The above is paraphrased from the book I'VE CREATED A GORET: THE
- >INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MAMMAL STORY by Prince.
-
- You've gotten the story totally wrong. It was the model 971. Can't
- you get anything straight?
-
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