Rick points out:

> HEWLETT-PACKARD MAKES ONLINE PURCHASES EASIER
>
> http://www.pcworld.com/cgi-bin/news?ID=971124112826
>                          HP Commerce Center channels prospective
> customers to online resellers.
>                         To visit http://www.interactive.hp.com/hpcc/
>
> Nope. No HP3000 stuff.

Nor 9000 stuff, as far as I can tell.

"So what?" you say.  Well, the site is allegedly for "the needs of
small businesses".

Compare and contrast that site (and HP's overall nearly complete
lack of visible marketing for the 3000) with the "IBM Direct
Quick Ship" catalog we just received in the mail (unsolicited).
It's a 24 page booklet detailing various memory and peripherals
for the AS/400 (and RS/6000).  They call the AS/400
"The world's most popular mid-range computer".  The back cover
touts the "AS/400 Advanced 36 Model 436 Growth Package"
(the HP/WRQ school of naming?) model...$11,300!

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