6. What the fuck are "Barbie" and "Hotwheels" branded computers?
Before I stared working for Python I spent 2 years selling computers for a local manufacturer. The twin brothers that owned the company were born again Baptists and more than a little strange. The brother in charge of the sales dept had a plaque on his office door that said ?director of big ideas??lol One of their better ideas was to pitch Mattel on Barbie and Hotwheels branded computers. Silver and pink cases, monitors and keyboards with flowers for the Barbie computers and blue cases, monitors and keyboards with flames for the Hotwheels computers. Concept was absolutely brilliant, but did they ever fuck up the fulfillment. The guts were low end ?everything onboard? motherboards and the power supplies had a failure rate that was beyond brutal. The base model without upgrades didn?t even have enough RAM to run windows. The last straw for me was when they promised delivery on about 20,000 units for xmas and didn?t come through. It was a cluster fuck of giant proportions and eventually forced them in bankruptcy.
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