On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Larry Barnes wrote:

> IBM
>           I Blame Microsoft
>           Idiots Buy Me
>           Idiots Building Machines
>           I'll Buy Macintoshes (next time...)
>           It Bit Me
>           It Built Microsoft
>           It's Better Manually
>           I've Been Mislead
>           I've Been Mugged

In the 1970's, when I was just starting out as a lowly COBOL programmer,
the IBM SE's were being transferred so much that they swore IBM stood for
"I've Been Moved".

The customers thought of them as "Italian Business Men" (ala La Cosa
Nostra)

When the PC Jr. came out in the 80's, IBM was dubbed "Itty Bitty
Machines".

Finally, when CICS took a core dump, we referred to it as an "Immense
Bowel Movement"!

Wendell

Wendell E. Gragg                 Socorro Independent School District
HP Library Systems Specialist    El Paso Tx
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