Re: The history of IBM :-)

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From: Endric Schubert
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1991 13:56

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In article <josef.688631447@ugly>, mollers.pad@sni-usa.com (Josef Moellers) writes:
|> In <13936@sbsvax.cs.uni-sb.de> fritsch@fsinfo.math.uni-sb.de (Lothar Fritsch) writes:
|> 
|> 
|> >Schon gewusst das CP/M (MS-DOS) aus den Routinen einer Horoskopmaschine
|> >entwickelt wurde ;-)
|> 
|> Da gab's doch noch die Geschichte von dem Telefonanruf des
|> IBM-Einkaeufers bei Intel:
|> 
|> IBM: Hello, is that the Intel Sales Department?
|> Intel: Yes, what can I do for You?
|> IBM: I want some 8088s!
|> Intel: Sure, the Coke vending machine processor, how many do You need?
|> IBM: 2 Million!
|> Intel: Two million Coke vending machine processors!?! What do You want
|>    with two million Coke vending machine processors?
|> IBM: Build PCs from them ...
|> 
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From: es@peanuts.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Endric Schubert)
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Subject: Re: The history of IBM :-)
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Date: 29 Oct 91 13:56:43 GMT
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