Wow. Cool story!
Judy On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Jim Carwardine wrote: > A friend and I were responsible for the introduction of Macs to Saudi > Arabia. In about 1985, he came to me with this article on the Mac Plus and > said, hey look at this. Want to get one? We went to the local Apple dealer > - yes, there were Apple IIs in Saudi. The dealer told he wouldn't order any > unless we could come up with an order for 60. So we went around and found > 60 people who would buy one - $3900 US as I recall - and we brought them in. > > A year or so later, Apple came out with MacProject and I used it to create > and manage a disaster recovery system for Aramco (THE oil company) where we > were able to recover yesterday's production (all 7 terabytes of it) and > rerun all the reports within 26 hours of bringing the backup tapes on site. > It was so remarkable that our mainframe supplier - IBM - brought their IBM > Europe brass to Saudi to see us demo our system and they all sat in our > boardroom watching a Mac Plus do it's magic... Jim > > 3/31/06 3:04 AM, Judy Perry wrote: > > > Yeah, I'm remembering now that my $100 1 MB RAM upgrade probably didn't > > come through legit channels... a friend of the spousal unit made it > > happen... > > > > Judy > > > > On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, jeffrey reynolds wrote: > > > >> I remember getting my 2mb upgrade for my SE to go to 2.5mb in 1988. > >> it cost $350 through the berkeley education program (i was a grad > >> student then). it was right when there was that short, but big, > >> memory price spike (i think it was a fake shortage thing by some > >> overseas suppliers) and when the chips were delivered the street > >> price on them was up over $1000. as i walked out of the campus office > >> where i picked up the little package with the simms, there were > >> literally about a dozen professors in the hall outside trying to buy > >> simms off folks since they were very hard to get. I could have made a > >> fast $500-600 profit if i had been willing to part with them then > >> bought them a couple of months later for like $250. being the > >> lifetime propeller head i am i resisted. that was a month of grad > >> student pay! > > > > _______________________________________________ > > use-revolution mailing list > > [email protected] > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > > preferences: > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > > -- > > Helping people focus and use time effectively and satisfyingly > as they go through their day. > <http://www.OwnYourFuture-net.com> > > Own Your Future Consulting Services Limited, > 23 Shoal Cove Road, Seabright, Nova Scotia, Canada. B3Z 3A9 > Phone: 902-823-2339. Fax: 902-823-2139 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
