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From: cjeff@silver.lcs.mit.edu (Carl J.M. Alexander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: IIci 5/160 configuration
Keywords: Mac IIci
Message-ID: <1991Jun7.231510.16985@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 7 Jun 91 23:15:10 GMT
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In article <1991Jun7.125253.10301@cbnewsc.att.com> straka@cbnewsc.att.com (richard.j.straka) writes:
>In article <1991May25.043909.765@world.std.com> barry@world.std.com (Barry L Wolman) writes:
>|Apple has recently introduced a 5MB IIci configuration with a 160MB
>|internal hard drive.  Who supplies the mechanism? 
>
>I read in EE Times that the disk drive mentioned here is manufactured by IBM. 
>Yes, IBM!  Necessity makes for strakng bedfellows sometimes.
>-- 
>Richard Straka  AT&T Bell Laboratories, IH-6K311

Well, nobody in net.land ever made any great claims for the collective IQ
of Apple management.   ;-)
 
But I'll bet there's someone in IBM management who's clever enough to dream
up a way to sell Apple a batch of drives that are ever-so-subtly defective....