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From: jason@cs.utexas.edu (Jason Martin Levitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt,comp.unix.aix,comp.misc
Subject: Re: IBM screws RT owners?
Summary: Talking to myself!
Keywords: IBM, RT, screw
Message-ID: <1134@gort.cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 16 Feb 90 09:07:37 GMT
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Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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In article <1133@gort.cs.utexas.edu> jason@cs.utexas.edu (Jason Martin Levitt) writes:
>
>  I'd like to talk to the brain-dead IBM marketeer that thought
>up this insult. Those customers who supported IBM RTs during the
>1985-1988 years are shut-out completely. Of course, they don't mention
>what kind of trade-in credit these recent purchasers get.....
>

 I can't resist following up my own posting. 

 It's admirable of IBM to openly admit they blew it with the
RT. It's unconscionable of them to imply that the _RT customers_
blew it by purchasing the machines!

  In case anyone thinks this is sour grapes, I'd like to point out
that I've never purchased RT hardware.

   --Jason

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