Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!amdahl!kim From: kim@amdahl.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Disposable computers (was: Re: A1000 -> A2000 upgrade offer, yet again...) Message-ID: <17304@amdahl.amdahl.com> Date: Fri, 30-Oct-87 17:40:54 EST Article-I.D.: amdahl.17304 Posted: Fri Oct 30 17:40:54 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 4-Nov-87 22:45:50 EST References: <5596@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> <1011@uhccux.UUCP> Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 Lines: 24 Summary: With a flick of the BIC ... In article <1011@uhccux.UUCP>, cs313s02@uhccux.UUCP (Cs313s02) writes: > > Perhaps we should make disposable > computer: that way, nobody will complain about upgrades... 8=) Don't laugh! Rumor here in the Valley has it that Gene Amdahl (no longer associated with Amdahl Corp.) is working on just that in his latest venture. This on mainframe scale machines, natch. Just think of it ... disposable 370's ... /kim [ Any thoughts or opinions which may or may not have been expressed ] [ herein are my own. They are not necessarily those of my employer. ] -- UUCP: kim@amdahl.amdahl.com or: {sun,decwrl,hplabs,pyramid,ihnp4,uunet,oliveb,cbosgd,ames}!amdahl!kim DDD: 408-746-8462 USPS: Amdahl Corp. M/S 249, 1250 E. Arques Av, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 CIS: 76535,25