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A section on this would be appropriate, citing the Rec Center, Halloweens skits, etc. Need to find sources. (John User:Jwy talk) 17:33, 15 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Inaccuracies

From the article:

In 1984 IBM partnered with (and later acquired) ROLM Communications in Santa Clara. ROLM started to lose pace with Nortel due to product issues and they never recovered. The 9751 CBX, which has IBM's name on it, was initially a successful product; but when ISDN service became more affordable, IBM never really updated the 9751 to integrate correctly with ISDN. Nortel leaped ahead on that issue alone; Avaya and others gained ground and started to overtake ROLM. IBM's ROLM division was later half sold to Siemens AG in 1990. By 1993, Siemens bought out IBM's share in ROLM and the downturn continued. The ROLM name was eventually dropped in the late 1990s.

This paragraph is dealing with events in the 1980's and 1990's... Avaya was part of Lucent Technologies until 2000, and didn't exist as a separate entity during the ROLM lifespan. //Blaxthos ( t / c ) 10:00, 9 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

cleanup needed

The article needs serious cleanup. 97.67.5.12 (talk) 01:25, 31 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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The FUCM (Fast Underwater Cruise Missile) and SUCM (Slow Underwater Cruise Missile)[citation needed] programs were rumored at the time, but that opportunity never materialized.

This sentence is a stupid prank or could be considered as vandalism. It should be removed. 69.181.162.200 (talk) 02:33, 5 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Major Cleanup

The current (January 2013) edition of the article reads very poorly as a scholarly article as there are elements missing and available online. (references fourth-coming).

Will be updating during the month of January, with appropriate waits for deliberation (2 weeks). Richard.rolm-ca.Rieger (talk) 06:53, 4 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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