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- From: bdubbs@cs.tamu.edu (Bruce Dubbs)
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- Subject: Re: Rumor: IBM out of hardware business????
- Date: 23 Jan 1993 00:57:59 GMT
- Organization: Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University
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- In article <1jpjabINNlsh@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong) writes:
- |There has been a rumor around this here part that IBM made an official
- |announcement on Fidonet that they are dropping out of the hardware
- |business. I don't have Fidonet access and can't confirm this. Anyone
- |have such access and seen this announcement out there?? No more PS/1,
- |PS/2? The end of their clone line only fater being out for a couple of
- |months? Any clarifications? IBM, are you out there reading Usenet?
- |
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- You are joking, right? The biggest problem that IBM has with their
- PCs is that their capacity isn't large enough. They can't pump them
- out any faster.
- -- Bruce
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- Bruce Dubbs | Oxymorons of note:
- bdubbs@neuron.tamu.edu | Honest Politician, Political Science,
- | Scrupulous Lawyer
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