It's been a name-your-own-price market for canny buyers of IBM and
compatible mainframes for some time now, but according to the Wall
Street Journal, Amdahl Corp is making it easy for even the meekest
DP manager to turn into a hard bargainer: it is giving big computer
buyers an Amdahl coffee mug and telling them it's worth $1m if they
just leave it on their desk when their IBM salesman comes to call.
