More, and less, equal than others

I'm trying to post these in basically the same order they happened but some stories just won't wait...

1. Compaq introduced an all in one consumer portable called the Presario 425. Big announcement. The president, the aforementioned Eckerd Pilsner (EP), went on some tv show in Europe to discuss it. They asked him to demonstrate its functionality.
He couldn't. At all.

The President and CEO of Compaq Computer was totally computer illiterate. He was embarassed on European TV.

How illiterate was he? Every day his secretary printed out his emails, handed the hard copy to him to read, then answered his email for him.

2. Speaking of the great and mighty EP, when Rod Canion ran Compaq, executives did not get reserved parking. This didn't work for EP. He immediately had designated parking created.

But wait! There's more!

One day I noticed a Porsche parked in the Handicap spot but without a handicap sticker. I asked the security guard about it. Turns out that whenever EP traveled he parked his car in the Handicap spot nearest the guard station so it could be watched.

You have to give him credit though. His Porsche was a stick shift and he knew how to drive it much, much better than he knew how to use a computer.

Me? Well, hell. I got to touch the Porsche. And no, I don't know how the Happy Face ended up drawn on it's window.