Thus it was written in the epistle of Denys Beauchemin,
>
> I would suggest that we create a large card which would be signed by attendees
> at HP World and would, at the end of the week, be delivered to Carly.

It appears to have potential.

>             could we keep the mindless chatter and cute little remarks to a
> minimum.  :)

Well, now . . . this is 3000-L after all :-)

> From: Some concerned HP World 2000 attendees
> To: Carly Fiorina, CEO of Hewlett-Packard Company
> Date:  1972 to September 2000.
>
> We want to respectfully inform you that we exist.
>
> We are among HP's most faithful customers and have been for a very long time.
>
> We are users of the HP e3000, running the HP invented Operating System, MPE.
>
> Our motto is "MPE Forever."
>
> Signed:

But she already knows we exist :-).  I doubt if any of the HP executives don't
know that *we* exist.  I expect that many who have no clue that the 3000 exists
know about us :-).

I agree about the attempts to be cute and so forth.  If this message is to get
there, it needs to be direct.  How about (with appropriate headers):

Dear HP,
  Thank you.  Thank you for inventing MPE.  Thank you for giving us 25 years
of worry-free computing.  The operating sytem you invented is top-notch, but
many folks don't know about it.  Please tell them.  For your good and ours.
Thanks again.

Signed,

Ted
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Ted Ashton ([log in to unmask]), Info Sys, Southern Adventist University
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men will begin to think like computers.
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