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Re: What color was “Apple Beige”?

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On 2021-01-31, Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:

> On Sunday, January 31, 2021 at 12:50:04 PM UTC-7, Mike wrote:
>
>> ICL cloned the QL (and extended it) for the OPD.
>
> That inspired me to look up the Wikipedia article on the One Per Desk,
> where I discovered its ironic fate... being so expensive, it ended up
> being issued to those who were likely to just use it as nothing more
> than a telephone.

'Twas ever thus.  Fancy, expensive hardware is seen as a status symbol,
to be reserved for the elite.

When a PPOE converted from the old crossbar PBX to a Mitel SX-200,
people could get fancy multi-line telephone sets with all sort of
options.  The trainer pointed out that ironically the fancy sets
usually went to the execs, while the lowly secretaries had to make
do with a 2500 set.  And that's exactly what happened when we got
the hardware.  It took a while, but eventually the bosses realized
that the secretary who managed all their calls needed the Superset
a lot more than they did.

Similarly, when it came time to put a personal computer on every
desk, the most powerful machines with the biggest monitors went
to the executives who barely used them.  We techies got the
medium systems, while our poor data entry clerk, who stared
at a monitor all day, got the smallest, cheapest unit even
though she needed a big screen more than anyone.

-- 
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\ /  <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid>      |  but it's a sacrifice
 X   I'm really at ac.dekanfrus     |  I'm willing to make."
/ \  if you read it the right way.  |    -- Lord Farquaad (Shrek)

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What color was “Apple Beige”? Marco Scholz <tool@disroot.org> - 2021-01-30 11:28 +0000
  Re: What color was “Apple Beige”? J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2021-01-30 11:59 -0500
    Re: What color was “Apple Beige”? Marco Scholz <tool@disroot.org> - 2021-01-30 18:08 +0000
      Re: What color was “Apple Beige”? maus <maus@dmaus.org> - 2021-01-31 08:10 +0000
        Re: What color was “Apple Beige”? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2021-01-31 10:06 +0000
          Re: What color was “Apple Beige”? mjb@signal11.invalid (Mike) - 2021-01-31 11:09 +0000
            Re: What color was “Apple Beige”? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2021-01-31 16:01 +0000
              Re: What color was “Apple Beige”? mjb@signal11.invalid (Mike) - 2021-01-31 19:31 +0000
                Re: What color was “Apple Beige”? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2021-01-31 12:30 -0800
                Re: What color was “Apple Beige”? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2021-02-01 00:40 +0000
                Re: What color was “Apple Beige”? Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2021-02-01 11:45 -0700
                Re: What color was “Apple Beige”? usenet@only.tnx (Questor) - 2021-02-01 21:26 +0000
          Re: What color was “Apple Beige”? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2021-01-31 07:09 -0800
          Re: What color was “Apple Beige”? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2021-01-31 18:26 +0000
            Re: What color was “Apple Beige”? maus <maus@dmaus.org> - 2021-01-31 18:51 +0000
          Re: What color was “Apple Beige”? Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2021-01-31 18:57 -0400
            Re: What color was “Apple Beige”? J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2021-01-31 21:14 -0500
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            Re: What color was “Apple Beige”? Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2021-02-01 11:45 -0700
    Re: What color was “Apple Beige”? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2021-01-30 17:45 -0800
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