"James B. Byrne" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message news:<[log in to unmask]>...
> On 16 Nov 2001, at 13:50, Stan Sieler wrote:
>
> > While I did say "I doubt...sales force", the original
> > line ended "sales force in the 1990s", which I now realize I should
> > have further qualified as "early/mid-1990s".
>
> The HP3000 sold itself, fortunately for HP and for us.  In over 20
> years I have never met a sales representative from HP that knew
> why an HP3000 was so highly regarded by those that were
> fortunate enough to work on them or recognized the unique value
> that the presence of Image in the FOS gave to the product.  They
> frequently knew so little about the machine that they were trying to
> sell that on several occasions I felt embarrassed for HP by their
> evident lack of knowledge.

Yes, The HP 3000 make a sense for me, during the 1/4 century with
bondage, The HP, they lost their sense. Should pull the all the stock
from them. ;-)

Peter Chong.
Sr. ERP Analyst

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