>Guess the only mainframe funny to compare 
>was  the old IBM sponsored 8mm films of
>Bob Newhart on his phone explaining hollerith  cards...

When Parallel Sysplex was announced, IBM produced an advertising film.
It featured a serious youngish woman who asserted that the new
capability would allow customers "to harvest data from fields that were
previously too thick to plow". It was unintentionally hilarious.

Bob Shannon

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