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A Chip Off the Old Auction Block
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Date: Fri, 22 Dec 89 10:23:17 est
From: Eric Haines <eye!erich@wrath.cs.cornell.edu>
Message-Id: <8912221523.AA00628@spruce>
Subject: A Chip Off the Old Auction Block
>From "In These Times", Dec 20 issue:
Abandon your stereotype of the computer industry as an enclave for binomial
nerds. According to Infoworld, a microcomputer magazine, fewer companies than
in previous years used sparsely clad women to entice customers into their
booths at Comdex, an annual computer trade show. One exception was the
Japanese firm Fujitsu. Alice LaPlante reports, "With an Arabian Nights theme,
more than 1,000 Fujitsu guests were treated to a lavish spread of food and
drink as well as live entertainment that included magicians, sword swallowers
and belly dancers. Some members of the audience were astonished by the
spectacle of a turban-clad Fujitsu senior executive being carried around on a
golden throne by male minions as his `favorite' women danced suggestively in
front of him, but that was minor compared to what happened next. A `harem' of
chained `slave girls' was brought in front of the crowd and `auctioned off' to
the crowd. A horrified Fujitsu manager watching from offstage stopped the
auction, but not before two girls were `sold' and carried away kicking over the
shoulders of male attendants."
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