Calling Gateway: You Left The Clue at your abandoned retail stores...

Dave: Welcome to Gateway.com! Home of America's Best Selling Plasma
TV and Hot New Line of Digital Cameras!
My name is snip your sales advisor. My phone is 1-800-snip
xsnip What phone number are you chatting from today?

calvin: 217 snip
Dave: How are you doing todya Calvin?
calvin: fine
Dave: Great! How's the weather in IL?
calvin: hot, otherwise fine
Dave: Super! What bring's you to Gateway chat today?
calvin: I'm looking at buying a 64 bit workstation
Dave: Sorry I don't carry those right now
Dave: Anything else I can with today?
calvin: What are you looking at future time wise?
Dave: Sorry I haven't heard
Dave: I can sure call you or feel free to call me when we do ok
Dave: Did you see I have a 5 megapixel camera for $249.99

Also Spy Sweeper/Window Washer for $39.99?

(Ed Note: A new antivirus and spy package just came out for free.
It's called Linux.)

calvin: We're looking at either the AMD Opteron or Itanium based
machine
calvin: we are replacing a SGI Origin server with the R10000 proc
Dave: I will let you know if I can offer you one in the future
calvin: Camera wise we are looking at a digital system to augment our
M6 and M4-2 Leicas
calvin: Must be ruggedized and use full area of lens, 24x36
calvin: http://www.i-love-epson.co.jp/products/rd1/rd11.htm
Dave: Sorry I don't offer anything like that right now. Anything else
you needed?
calvin: a link to the new prerelease site
calvin: Film will never be obsolete, though, will it?
calvin: Even the $25K Hasselblad back doesn't fully match 35mm film
res
Dave: No it won't
calvin: but if it's going on a web site anyway, or for small insets
in teh pubs digitals great
calvin: tech pubs
calvin: We have an older digital Nikon , but it gets little use
calvin: A 6x7 scanner that has pro resolution under $2000, we'd buy
one of those
Dave: What company or organization is this for Calvin?
calvin: snip
calvin: We do tech pubs for snip mfr's
calvin: We are using GIMP for all our image work
calvin: we shoot mostly 35 or occasionally 6x7
calvin: we print to snip directly
calvin: Very nearly a 100% GPL/Linux shop except SGI runs Irix
calvin: No Macs.
Dave:
^^http://accessories.gateway.com/snip
Dave: I just sent a page
Dave: Would this work for you?
calvin: This is a flatbed scanner. We already have one, which I think
is the predecessor of this one. We want a dedicated film scanner that
can handle 6x7
calvin: transarencies, the resolution is far better.
calvin: Flatbed scanners are fine for paper
calvin: but the detail for negatives isn't there
calvin: Getting the Epson to talk properly to SGI was a bugger, too,
and Epson were no help
calvin: eventually we did get it working
calvin: and we're pleased with it.
calvin: The scanners we want currently retail for $5000 up
Dave: Sorry I don't offer those right now
calvin: and our market isn't big enough
Dave: Anything else you needed?
calvin: We need FILM scanning
calvin: You have my phone# Feel free to call when you get a 64 bit
solution,but, Dell and HP already there and we are looking to replace
the SGI when it leaves SGI maintenance this October
calvin: and we want a month or two overlap
Dave: Sure will
calvin: So we need to nake a buying decision by snip
calvin: Did you see the Epson camera?
calvin: It's rugged and, it takes M Leica lenses, which we have
Dave: Yes I did
Dave: very nice
calvin: Using the same lens for dig and film is the only way to go
calvin: I have the Medical Nikkor 200mm which we use on the digital
once and a while
calvin: although it's effectively a 340mm on the dig
calvin: which is too long
calvin: I have to go but, keep in touch if you run into the stuff I
mentioned
calvin: Good Luck!
Dave: Thank you for chatting with Gateway.com

"Cal Cerise" wrote in message
om...

calvin: Camera wise we are looking at a digital system to augment our
M6 and M4-2 Leicas
calvin: Must be ruggedized and use full area of lens, 24x36
calvin: http://www.i-love-epson.co.jp/products/rd1/rd11.htm
Dave: Sorry I don't offer anything like that right now. Anything else

Just a point the Epson has an APS-C format sensor (15.6mmx23.7mm) it's the
same Sony sensor that's in the Nikon D100/Pentax *istD

Cal Cerise wrote:

Dave: Welcome to Gateway.com! Home of America's Best Selling Plasma
TV and Hot New Line of Digital Cameras!
My name is snip your sales advisor. My phone is 1-800-snip
xsnip What phone number are you chatting from today?

calvin: 217 snip
Dave: How are you doing todya Calvin?
calvin: fine


What's your point? Everybody knows that Gateway is the Walmart of
digital sales. Do you see Hasselblads at Walmart?

Greg

--
Destroy your safe and happy lives
Before it is too late
The battles we fought were long and hard
Just not to be consumed by rock'n'roll

18:48 New party ('calvin') has joined the session
18:48 You have been placed in queue. An advisor will join soon to
assist you. When you choose to finish your chat, please use the EXIT
CHAT button on your right.
18:49 New party ('Andre') has joined the session
18:49 Andre Welcome to Gateway.com !!! Home of America's Best Selling
Plasma TV and Hot New Line of Digital Cameras !!! My name is ANDRE'
and I'll be your E-sales Advisor. If you like, and to better service
you, please provide your phone #. How are you today?!
18:49 calvin hello, how are you?
18:50 Andre Fine, thank you. What can I do for you?
18:50 calvin I'm looking for a film scanner
18:50 Andre We do not offer any, sorry
18:50 calvin ok
18:56 Andre Thank you
18:56 Party ('Andre') has left the session
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(Note timestamps. Andre takes six minutes then without asking
'anything else' etc. dumps customer.