20 Apr
2018
20 Apr
'18
3:23 a.m.
I remember
going to the regional IBM sales office (was that on Arques? It's been
too lnng), purchase order in hand, wanting to pick up 10 of the 5150s.
Nobody really know what we were asking for--finally, someone showed up
and told us that the lead time would be 12 weeks ARO. We went down to
Computerland and bought out their stock that evening.
That reminds me of when I phoned IBM here in Ireland looking for software
support for their VM mainframe operating system not too many years later,
sometime in the early 1990s. I spelled out every variation of the name
I could think of but they kept asking me what version of OS/2 I had.
I guess by then the circle had turned again.
Regards,
Peter Coghlan.