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...only after Cox surprised his superiors by requesting the right to install the computer himself from California. "I was going to . take it all the way to the top of IBM," he says. "There are very few people who have really tried to cheat me on anything. And, in Ross's mind, he wasn't cheating me at all. That's the frightening part...
...Ross was able to convince a new branch manager ((who has since died)) that I shouldn't get the money," recalls Campbell. "He convinced management that he could walk on water. He is a master salesman. He really thought a lot less of me because I let him do it. I was just so aghast that he would have the audacity to even suggest it -- and doubly aghast that the new manager went along with it. After that, I wouldn't touch anything he got close to." Hard feelings aside, Campbell plans to vote for Perot in November. "I still...
...same year, Perot wrote to IBM chairman Thomas Watson Jr. accusing Volding "of all kinds of unethical things" in preventing his upstart company from competing against IBM, says Volding. Big Blue, having faced antitrust + charges before, in the 1950s, started an investigation but soon cleared Volding of any wrongdoing. "Ross knew damn well I wasn't unethical," he says. "I think he was just trying to get IBM to pull back and give him a free hand in signing up our customers. He used threats all the time...
...former executive with Southwestern, says that Perot may have sold and then canceled "minor pieces of equipment" but that he "did not take unnecessary orders in order to pad his account." Bridges adds, "The problem I had with Perot is that if the game doesn't go the way Ross wants it to go, he keeps trying to change the rules so that he wins...
...ROSS PEROT: His Days at IBM in Dallas...