DRI: why are our sales reps recommending MS-DOS

Date: 1991

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To: Dick Williams Fr: Dave Valentino Date: May 30, 1991 Re: Discussion topics for Ingram meeting

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As soon as IMD and Merisel were allowed by Microsooft to take back orders on MS DOS 5.0 we were literally blown out of the water. IMD marketing stall recommended that we "stay quit for 8 weeks or so" ..

Why are Merisel sales reps turning dealers that we referred to them into MS DOS sales?

"... DR DOS, oh yeah we seel it but you should wait for MS DOS ..."

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