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Re: Apple II vs Atari 800



Payton Byrd wrote:
A former colleague used to be a technical sales rep for Apple back in
the 1980's in Florida.  They ONLY targeted the school market.  He said
that their biggest selling tool was strip clubs.

Salesmen seem to degenerate to the lowest common denominator unless
provided with strict adult supervision--which was never a strong suit
in the early Apple Corp.  ;-)

Put another way, since the only metric generally applied to salesmen
is the quantity of sales, if left unchecked they tend to stoop to
anything to get a sale.  "Bribery?  What's your problem?"

-michael

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