New logo: Vintage Computer Federation
Jason T
silent700 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 14 18:56:45 CDT 2015
On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 6:32 PM, William Donzelli <wdonzelli at gmail.com> wrote:
> I do not think IBM ever really did black suits. Navy blue and dark
> grey, although the skinny tie era was before these machines (maybe the
> fat, good-for-eatin'-ribs ties of the 1970s would work).
Ah yeah, but I imagined stodgy IBM never giving in to trends on the
tie issue. And you're right, black would be too elegant.
Business-grey is the way.
> Anyway, "midrange" was a dumb marketing term that they forced on us.
> They are all really minis, no matter who does not want to admit it.
That's the way I took it - IBM insisting on their own lexicon. Was
Midrange ever used by anyone else?
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