IBM Engineers

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Thu Apr 8 12:51:57 2004

On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Gene Ehrich wrote:

> At 10:00 AM 4/8/2004, you wrote:
> >if he claims that marketing doesn't matter
>
> I remember a saying that was used at IBM years ago
>
> "Nothing happens until somebody sells something"

One of the more interesting tidbits I learned last night was that IBM
didn't get any orders for the S/360 until almost 3 months after the
announcement. They were getting nervous that they'd just sunk $5B into a
big dark hole.

Then the orders started pouring in at a volume twice than what they had
anticipated. They couldn't keep up with production for the first year or
so.

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Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival
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