Funny! I was skulking about the HP Chronicle web site, searched for MPE,
and read that HP itself is using some 700 3Ks internally. This is
one-fifth the number of 9000s they are using :-( , but they are using
them.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Holloway [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, March 19, 1998 3:35 PM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: [HP3000-L] Cort and the HP3000
>
> We had someone here say there were only about 350 HP3000 shops world
> wide. Don't laugh they really said this in a meeting. Anyway, we asked
> HP for some numbers on just the 3K and this is what they sent us.
> There
> are currently about 20,000 3K shops with about 30,000 3Ks in the US
> only. There is also a growth rate of about 10% per year. If this is a
> dying machine, then a living machine must be instant world wide
> saturation. This information is about a month old.
>
> Rich
>
> Providence Health Plans