Path: utzoo!vpk4!hjespers From: hjespers@vpk4.UUCP (Hans Jespersen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.att Subject: Re: AT&T 6300: the Wrong Choice Message-ID: <4555@vpk4.UUCP> Date: 27 Mar 89 15:40:22 GMT References: <7634@killer.Dallas.TX.US> <1500002@scsmo1.UUCP> Reply-To: hjespers@attcan.UUCP (Hans Jespersen) Organization: AT&T Canada Inc., Toronto Lines: 28 In article <1500002@scsmo1.UUCP> tim@scsmo1.UUCP writes: >You ask why buy an new 6300? Well have have this "goverment contract" that >says we can only buy what EDS wants to sell us and it is 6300 vs 6386 vs 3b2. >So sometimes we get need the lowest cost option. >More of Your goverment at work! (For those in the US :-) I can just hear the conversation at EDS. Person1:How do we get these guys at the Soil Conservation Service to buy 3B2s ? Person2:Easy, don't give them any choice, they have to buy from us. P1: Nooo, we can't do that, we have to give them _some_ choice. P2: Ok, then give them some really bad alternatives. DOS machines maybe. P1: Ya, that's it, 6300s. They will never buy those. --------- serveral weeks later ------- P1: Oh, no. P2: What is it. P1: Remember those guys at SCS? They bought the 6300s. :-( -- Hans Jespersen UUCP: uunet!attcan!hjespers AT&T Canada Inc. or ..!attcan!nebulus!arakis!hans Toronto, Ontario #include "Yabba Dabba Doo" -- F. Flintstone