Scratch off number 36 Kmart.  They unplugged their only HP e3000 about ten
years ago when I left.

Wayne R. Boyer <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
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> Such a list of major organizations (not just publicly traded companies)
could
> be useful for other purposes as well.  I often need to explain to other
> people (some of whom are computer-knowledgeable - some not) what I do and
> what a HP-3000 MPE/iX computer is.  I've found it very very useful to be
able
> to name large organizations that use a HP-3000 in some serious business
> process and also to identify products that are produced using software
> running on a HP-3000 platform.  This helps get people to understand that a
> HP-3000 is a serious piece of useful computer equipment and not just a
> minicomputer relic from the '80s.
>
> Here's an example ... if you have ever been in an airport (almost
everybody
> has) and have walked on or off of an airplane (almost everybody has) then
you
> probably walked thru a thing called a "Jetway" -- that's a product
produced
> by a client of mine. All the newer Jetways are manufactured by FMC using a
> large HP-3000 running (no big surprise here...) MANMAN.  Thus MANMAN and a
> HP-3000 has touched the lives of virtually every airplane traveler in the
USA
> (and the world?).
>
> Maybe some folks at HP should think about the marketing possibilities
here...
> what I've said here before is that the presence of HP-3000 systems in
> organizations drives the sales of other pieces of computer equipment.
Having
> well known customers also can drive the sales of additional systems.
>
> PS: What does Longs do with those HP-3000s anyway?  Did one of them
process
> the sale of those tulips that I bought at Longs the other day?  There were
a
> great deal at only $2.99!
>
> Wayne Boyer
> Cal-Logic
>
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