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From: ron@ron.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie)
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Subject: Re: IBM Sells Rolm To Siemens AG
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Date: 14 Dec 88 15:43:38 GMT
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If you'd actually used a Rolm phone switch, you'd know
why they lost money on it.  People expect their telephone
service to be reliable.  In addition to horrendous start
up bugs on all the installations I've watched, the thing
managed to scrog traditional modem connections run through
it.  Nearly half of the University Problems session at the
last Share (a independent IBM mainframe users group) was
devoted to ROLM telephone problems.

-Ron