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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 12 2012 @ 02:02 PM EDT |
The company I worked for had an IBM mainframe, but bought Leading Edge (an early
clone maker) PCs and used IBM network cards in them. IBM changed their network
cards to break compatibility with the Leading Edge PCs. Then IBM's reps
supposedly went on a whispering campaign to make sure the people responsible for
the PC purchase looked bad. It may have even involved the company's directors.
After that it became impossible to by anything but IBM in the company. No one
wanted to risk the same thing happening to them.
After PS/2s came out, we had a need to use an old network card that was only
available as an PC AT card. (It was to interface with a rather outdated
industrial system.) We had to call the clone PCs we ordered "interface
devices" or something like that get them through the purchasing system.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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