Conspicuous consumption and naked greed have been decisively out of fashion since Meltdown Monday, so we are suprised to hear on the financial grapevine that the American Express unit Shearson Lehman Hutton is due in December to install an IBM 3090-600S fitted with the full complement of one Gigabyte of main memory and one Gigabyte […]
Conspicuous consumption and naked greed have been decisively out of fashion since Meltdown Monday, so we are suprised to hear on the financial grapevine that the American Express unit Shearson Lehman Hutton is due in December to install an IBM 3090-600S fitted with the full complement of one Gigabyte of main memory and one Gigabyte of expanded memory, enough memory to populate 1,000 undercored 80386 personal computers in and around memory starved Manhattan, and we can already feel the envy greening on Wall Street: we just hope the brokers are up to date with their dues to the lads who go around protesting that Suomo solo facendo la nostra cosa, or they could be facing a Christmas they will not want to remember as they come in one fine morning to be greeted by a totally amnesiac IBM mainframe.
