Unisys will still sell small systems under its name, but it is negotiating for another company to make them.
The company sells systems for processing insurance claims, a big office expense.
The company also sold nearly identical systems under different names, making comparison difficult.
How do you sell systems to customers instead of copiers?
Major success followed as the company grew exponentially over the next few years selling both systems and slide creation services.
"They were not particularly impressed by selling systems and network software," he said.
I've sold systems for eight times the price that weren't as good.
Still, Dell executives said they had sold systems to customers fleeing those companies.
But storage companies sell big systems that cost as much as $1 million each.
That is, all sell systems designed to be attached to other computers and a corporatewide data network.