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[Dan Jenkins]

Ben Scott wrote:

>  On 2/20/06, Dan Jenkins <dan at rastech.com> wrote:
>
> >> About the Connecticut city which began every PO with "Your
> >> solution will be an IBM 5150 with these characteristics..." even
> >> when ordering printer ribbons, the less said the better. (I never
> >> did figure out how to modify an IBM XT to be a printer ribbon.)
> >> :-)
>
>  Buy (and charge for) a printer ribbon and an IBM XT. Give them the
>  ribbon. Keep the IBM XT; call it "packaging". ;-)

LOL. I should have thought of that. Of course, XTs were out of 
production for by then and those POs still kept coming in.
We kept treating the POs like Jack Nicholson in "Five Easy Pieces" 
asking for toast: "a chicken salad sandwich on wheat toast, no 
mayonnaise, no butter, no lettuce; hold the chicken." An XT, hold the 
case, motherboard, cpu, ram and hard drive, add a different case, 
motherboard, cpu and ram. The only thing in common was the floppy drive. :-)

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Dan Jenkins (dan at rastech.com)
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