[SunRescue] Offerings

[Dave McGuire]

  I think I'm going to take up veterinary medicine.  It's a far less
bullshit-driven industry than this one has become in recent years.

         -Dave McGuire

On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Jonathan Eisch wrote:
>I have an NT box at my home office.  It's a full tower.  Whenever someone sees the
>computer they always comment "Wow, that must be a really fast computer!"
>Naturally, they assume that my SS5 pizzabox is slow.  Same with laptops.  I have a
>sparcbook, and an old NCR 386 laptop.  The NCR is about twice as big, and three
>times as heavy.  People seem to think that the NCR is my new speedy laptop.
>I don't really get it.
>
>-Jonathan
>
>Dave McGuire wrote:
>
>>   *snort*
>>
>>   Yup, I suppose you're right. ;)
>>
>>      -Dave McGuire
>>
>> On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, scohen - Stephen Cohen wrote:
>> >Hold on - IBM learned that lesson decades ago.
>> >
>> >Stephen P. Cohen           Email:  scohen at acxiom.com
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>> >
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >From: Dave McGuire [mailto:mcguire at neurotica.com]
>> >Sent: Monday, August 16, 1999 09:32 AM
>> >To: Tim_Hauber at STEV.net; rescue at ohno.mrbill.net
>> >Subject: Re: Re(2): [SunRescue] Offerings
>> >
>> >
>> >On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Tim Hauber wrote:
>> >> Of course another reason is
>> >>that somehow the consumer at large thinks a tower is more powerful than a
>> >>desktop. :-)
>> >
>> >  "Put it in a big box and it automagically becomes a server"...that's one
>> >thing that I've always found very amusing...and simultaneously very sad...about
>> >the PeeCee industry.
>> >
>> >                -Dave McGuire
>> >
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