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From: "Patrick T. Rourke" <ptrourke@mediaone.net>
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>But I am grateful that the manufactuers included it as a game, perhaps
>under the influence of the head of Hewlett Packard, formerly a classics
>professor! Perhaps you should ask him the question, Are you satisfied
>with Caesar III, installed on the PackardBell line of computers?

Naw, Packard Bell has no relationship to either Hewlett Packard or the
erstwhile Bell System (indeed, I believe it is now the erstwhile Packard
Bell).

Perhaps the Erstwhile Packard Bell Corporation would be a good name? A
friend who used to work for DEC calls it The Company Formerly Known as
Digital.


P. T. Rourke
ptrourke@mediaone.net



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