Anne & Lynn: Chuckle... In the 1970's & 80's and a little bit into the 90's our local IBM reps had desks in our offices and also IBM phones. I used to call my IBM friends via IBM TIE LINE and talk with them albiet mostly business once in a while some personal stuff came up. I used to have a friend at the Washington Systems Center and called him up monthly mostly to see if he was going to some computer conference. I used my conversations to leverage our local IBMers who were well lets say less than cooperative. I know my contacts help push the company I was working for to be in the ESP of 3390's. At some point in time I did have a tie line directory and found some other long lost IBM friends.
Ed ________________________________ From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <l...@garlic.com> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 9:23 AM Subject: Re: disclosing "business" information on the internet eamacn...@yahoo.ca (Ted MacNEIL) writes: > Recently, I worked at a shop where our VP told us we must have all > that info in our signature block -- quite the opposite! a group of us were the first to have business cards made up with our internal newtwork email address (as well as arpanet email address). some people complained ... with an excuse that business cards were only for use with customers ... who wouldn't be able to contact us on the internal network. now it turned out that for quite some time, it was common to have business cards with both external phone number and the internal corporate tieline number ... for use with both customers and internal corporate colleagues ... so the internal email address was just the equivalent of the internal corporate tieline number (aka whole thing prompted by individals that weren't comfortable with this new fangled email stuff). old post: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/internet.htm#0 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/98.html#59 with email regarding the email gateway between arpanet/internet and the internal network: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/98.html#email821022 -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
