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From: james@bigtex.uucp (James Van Artsdalen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: An advertisement I'd like to see
Message-ID: <8350@bigtex.uucp>
Date: 23 Sep 88 03:47:13 GMT
References: <144@imspw6.UUCP>
Reply-To: james@bigtex.UUCP (James Van Artsdalen)
Organization: F.B.N. Software, Austin TX
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In article <144@imspw6.UUCP>, bob@imspw6.UUCP (Bob Burch) wrote:

> From Ted Holden at HTE:

>      Is anybody from Tandy, Dell, Compaq. etc. etc. out there
> with their ears on??

There are people from Tandy who are regular posters.  Dell has a
machine on the net now.  I was just hired at Dell this morning.  So
there are some clone-types out there.  I don't know about Compaq, but
I'm sure there are some of them around too.

Nobody tells us software hacks why they do what they do in marketing,
but I only have to guess IBM does so much more advertising because IBM
is selling more than just micros.  Indeed I've heard it described before
that micros are just a PR effort for IBM to sell mainframes and minis.
IBM can write off the cost of selling their name over the entire product
line, whereas the cloners only sell micros.

PS. Come Monday morning on my first day of work, I imagine the words
   "clone", "PCs Ltd" and "mail order" will disappear from my vocabulary. :-)
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