Power On Self Test: IBM Slides

Posted by Joel Johnson, July 28, 2008 4:14 AM |
ib33.jpg

Nearly every slide was worthy of a POST. [Square America]

posted in: Power On Self Test ,  Retro
Favorite this! ( 2 )
Digg!
Send this to a Friend
Older Gateway shutters online PC store
Newer Dell is working on another smartphone, unless they aren't

Discussion

Take a look at this
#1 posted by strider_mt2k Author Profile Page, July 28, 2008 7:48 AM

Bolder starts NOW!

Oh wait it's still loading.

Bolder starts....nnnnnow!

Take a look at this
#2 posted by GGz , July 28, 2008 8:16 AM

You don't see that many average looking people over 30 in business ads these days.

Take a look at this
#3 posted by mikeyboy , July 28, 2008 10:26 AM

really needs a LOL version. here you go:

http://girdernet.com/ibm/ (sometimes NSFW)

i gave you my hour of 'me time' this morning.

Take a look at this
#4 posted by Halloween Jack , July 28, 2008 10:28 AM

Hornrims Dude looks close enough to Mark Mothersbaugh that these slides look like screencaps from a DEVO video.

Take a look at this
#5 posted by technogeek , July 28, 2008 6:10 PM

Classic salesman's introduction: "I'm from IBM, and I'm here to help you."

Q: How could you recognize an IBM service technician?
A: Because when he took off his blue suit coat, his sleeves were already rolled up.

Culture of the times. To sell to businessmen, you had to look like, and sound like, a businessman. The days of being able to sell technology because you look and sound like a technologist were far in the future.

Square? Maybe. But on the other hand, wouldn't you _rather_ have a salesman who talks about what the product can actually do for you than about the buzzwords?

Post a comment

Anonymous