This event, if memory serves, took place in 1980 or
1981.  Lots of 3000's sold since then.

--- Gary Jackson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The following message was posted the other day:
>
> ___
> FWIW: I found an information bulletin that states
> "Making shipment of the
> 10,000th HP 3000
> Business Computer -- now the fifth most widely used
> business computer in the
> nation -- more than 1700 HP employees formed a huge
> "10,000" on an open
> field, the site of a planned new office building
> here, then released 10,000
> helium-filled balloons into the autumn sky.
> ___
>
> Can that number be right?  I mean, if the HPe3000 is
> over 25 years old, that
> would mean that, on average, less than 400 have been
> sold each year.  Any
> idea where the number came from?
>
>
> Gary Jackson
> QSS


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