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• The trouble with computers is that they do what you tell them, not what you want. -- D. Cohe
• Strange things are done to be number one In selling the computer The Druids were entrepreneu
  IBM has their strategem And they built a granite box Which steadily grows acuter, It tracked the moon, warned of monsoons, And Honeywell competes like Hell, And forecast the equinox But the story's missing link Their price was right, their future Is the system old at Stonemenge sold bright, By the firm of Druids, Inc....
• gripenet n. [IBM] A wry (and thoroughly unofficial) name for IBM's internal VNET system
  deriving from its common use by IBMers to voice pointed criticism of IBM management that would be taboo in more formal channels....
• Every purchase has its price.
• You can do this in a number of ways. IBM chose to do all of them.
  Why do you find that funny? -- D. Taylor, Computer Science 350...
• You can do this in a number of ways. IBM chose to do all of them.
  Why do you find that funny?" -- D. Taylor, Computer Science 350...