Xref: utzoo comp.misc:5621 rec.humor:20112 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!tank!paideia!vevea From: vevea@paideia.uchicago.edu (Jack L. Vevea) Newsgroups: comp.misc,rec.humor Subject: Re: Looking for Computer Folklore Message-ID: <2435@tank.uchicago.edu> Date: 24 Mar 89 00:53:06 GMT References: <864@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> <2047@tank.uchicago.edu> <36549@vax1.tcd.ie> <669@maths.tcd.ie> <15759@cup.portal.com> <24510@mirror.UUCP> Sender: news@tank.uchicago.edu Reply-To: vevea@paideia.uchicago.edu (Jack L. Vevea) Distribution: na Organization: University of Chicago, Dept of Education Lines: 26 In article <24510@mirror.UUCP> garison@prism.TMC.COM (Gary Piatt) writes: >Ronald J. Notarius writes: >=>I received a COMB catalog in yesterday's mail. In it they advertise a Lisa 2. >=>Yes, a Lisa 2! At one time costing over $10,000, now only $999! > >I used to work for Visual Technology, a company that was growing faster I used to work for a Fortune 500 company, referred to hereafter as X***x to preserve anonymity and protect the guilty. As recently as three years ago, they found themselves in the unfortunate position of still having a huge inventory of X***x 820's on hand-- a horrible little 64k CPM machine. So they decided to try to unload them by selling them to employees at the special discount of about $2000-- extra if you wanted the 10-meg hard disk. Many people were foolish enough to actually _buy_ the things at that price; a year later, the rest were available from a salvage firm for about $100.00. Saepe fidelis.