On 8/18/10 6:40 PM, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
     None of those
were marketed as a minicomputer by IBM.  The Series/1
 was.
 Thus my "as such". 
 IBM could have called them squigglethwaps, but they are still pretty
 much minicomputers. 
 
    I'd pay real money to see the corporate grey flannel button-down IBM
 of that era print or utter that word in pretty much any forum. :) 
 
 How about I get my dad to put his suit, badge and pocket protector on
 and say it? 
 
  YES!!  DO IT!! 8-)  Your dad rocks.
         -Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL