system: You are Dave Raymond, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Op. Sys Debate message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Lawrence Lucier about "wake up, IBM!".

They wrote:
LL> Alan Hess @ 1:261/1000 wrote on 01-09-98 18:04 about *wake up, IBM!*
LL> <dum de dah de, dum de dah, dum de dah de, dum dah dah dah dadda da,
LL> dum de da de.....>
LL> Thanks Alex<sic>........I'll take International Bowel.....errrr......I
LL> mean Business Machines for $600 please.
AH>> Is there any way we can wake up IBM and get them to start
AH>> properly promoting and advertising OS/2??
LL> Ummmm.....what is "the most often asked question about IBM and OS/2."?
LL> Thanks Alex<sic>.......I'll take Ignoring Business
LL> Movements.......what?....ohhh.....yes...sorry about that Alex, I
LL> should have said Ignorant Blue Manipulations for....errr.......still
LL> not right?.....oh hell, just give me IBM for $800, please.
AH>> The Justice Department probe of Microsoft, coupled with the fact
AH>> that Win95 really has not taken the world by storm (despite all
AH>> the preloads, Windows 3.11 seems to still be preferred), gives
AH>> IBM yet another excellent opening.
LL> What is "What events have cause IBM to blow it in the OS/2 arena time
LL> after time"?
LL> Thanks Alex<sic>..........I'll take I Blow
LL> MicroSoft......what???........oh for pete's sake Alex....ok, ok, ok,
LL> have it your way.......sheesh!!  IBM for $1000
LL> please......ehhhh???......ummmm....could you please repeat
LL> that.....what the hell do you mean I have to have Internet Explorer
LL> installed before I can answer this question???? Are you outta your
LL> cotton-picking mind???
AH>> What kind of fools are running the software department of IBM?
LL> Hey! Wait a minute now......you asked the question!!!! Now all I have
LL> left is Double Jeopardy left to win on!  Thanks a lot for nothing,
LL> Alex!!
LL> <Alex>: Heehee......chill out dU00de, it was only a micro of soft
LL> humour.  Coming up next is Final Jeopardy but first we must go to
LL> commercial.......or should I say "we'll go where *you* want to go
LL> today" and yes that's right,  you *DO*  want to go to a commercial,
LL> now don't you?
LL> <sudden blatent increase of volume issuing from TV speaker system>
LL> Thanks for going were we wanted you to go today.........remember, if
LL> you don't have Internet Explorer installed on your pre-installed
LL> Windows computer system, please feel free to rat on the dirty
LL> low-down, pinko, DOJ loving, dirt-sucking scum of a reseller that sold
LL> you your system and we will take it from there........and remember, we
LL> want you to go where we want you to go, so go forth and sin against
LL> MicroSoft no more!  Check out the graphics........has lovely plummage,
LL> don't it?
LL> <volume level returns to normal but due to punctured eardrums caused
LL> by commercial the sound only comes out in a whisper>
LL> Welcome back folks, it's now time for Final Jeopardy!  Ok are you
LL> ready?  Here's the final clue.....
LL> <dum de dah de, dum de dah, dum de dah de, dum dah dah dah dadda da,
LL> dum de da de.....>
AH>> Their hardware and internet services ads are good, so where the
AH>> heck are the OS/2 ads???
LL> ARRRGGGHhhhhh............you did it again!!!  You asked the obvious
LL> question and now there's no chance of me winning, Alex!!!!  Just wait
LL> till I get my hands around your microsoft loving neck you little
LL> runt........I'll tell ya exactly where I want you to go today!  Do the
LL> words "meet your maker", "Bill Gates" and "hell" ring any bells you
LL> GPF looney-tunes???  Here, turn your head a little this way so my
LL> thumbs can go where they want to go a little deeper into your eyeball
LL> sockets.........
LL> <lots of thumping, gurgling of strained air passage ways and demented
LL> moaning heard as the camera slowly fades to black>

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