BUNCH
The group of mainframe computer competitors to IBM in the 1970s became known as the BUNCH: Burroughs, UNIVAC, NCR, Control Data Corporation, and Honeywell. These companies were grouped together because the market share of IBM was much higher than all of its competitors put together.
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Famous quotes containing the word bunch:
“Don: Im not going near that country club.
Wick: Why not?
Don: Theyre all a bunch of hypocrites. I dont like to be whispered aboutLook whos here from New York, the Birnam brothers. Or rather the nurse and the invalid.”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)
“The look for me moonlight.
Watch for me by moonlight,
And he lay in his blood on the highway, with the bunch of lace at his throat.”
—Alfred Noyes (18801958)
“A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness. But after that he begins to bunch them.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)