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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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