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On Sat, 18 Nov 1995, Michael MacDonald wrote: > I hate IBM. Why do they market computers that are not acutally available? We've discussed this (emphasis on "cussed" :) several times in the past two years. One theory has to do with the consent decree IBM signed with the U.S. Justice Department. It prohibits them from pre-announcing products. This was in response to IBM's practice of announcing products which were nowhere near completion to discourage people from buying a competitor's product already on the market (a practice a certain software company today wields quite successfully). Anyways, the theory goes that since they can't pre-announce anything, they build a few computers, then announce and sell them before they've started mass-producing them. ___________________________________________________________________________ John H. Kim "A common mistake that people make when trying to design jokim@mit.edu something completely foolproof is to underestimate the jokim@tuna.mit.edu ingenuity of complete fools." -- Douglas Adams