It HAD to be 1983 - Today (I hope), we know better than to release 10,000
balloons into the sky.  How environmentally incorrect!

Connie

>The following message was posted the other day:
>
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>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

Connie Sellitto
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