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From: bill@bilver.UUCP (Bill Vermillion)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: New product?
Message-ID: <489@bilver.UUCP>
Date: 13 Feb 90 13:54:18 GMT
References: <749@npiatl.UUCP> <22000005@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: bill@bilver.UUCP (Bill Vermillion)
Organization: W. J. Vermillion, Winter Park, FL
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In article <22000005@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> gupta@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
 
>In today's Wall Street Journal there is an article about the new
>IBM machines (in the Marketplace section). It says that it is
>a fast machine and that IBM will be selling it for around $15K. Apparently
>the name is RS/6000 (continuing the long IBM tradition of 
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>user-friendly names :-).

Interesting choice for a name.  Wonder if they realize Radio Shack had a
series with that number.

I can just see it now.  "Hey I got a new RS 6000".  "That old Radio Shack
Dog!  Why not get a good machine!"

Actually the RS line started with the Radio Shack 16, and it became the Tandy
6000, but a lot of people still say they have a Radio Shack 6000!

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