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From a218@mindlink.UUCP Thu Sep 21 11:21:53 1989
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From: a218@mindlink.UUCP (Charlie Gibbs)
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Subject: What those proposals really mean
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I came across this while cleaning out some old files...
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PROPOSAL PHRASE MEANING
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You are fortunate indeed to have If we don't get some revenue
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contacted a manufacturer who can from you this year we won't
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deliver the equipmentwithin the make our budget.
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six-month delivery period, which
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we estimate you require.
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We have carried out an exhaustive Look at the number of times
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and comprehensive survey of your we've taken you to lunch.
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problems.
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Furthermore, in a multiprogramming We can't do it on one machine.
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environment,two machines would offer
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an element of parallel processing
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which would not otherwise be possible
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on any computer equipment you are
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likely to consider.
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We cannot overemphasize the We have no floating-point
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importance of this decimal hardware.
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arithmetic capability.
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Our third-generation equipment There will be no local backup.
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provides the highest standard of
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reliability.
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While we have not been shown detailed We can't understand your
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flow charts and description of your specification, but the last
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production control systems, we one we did took four hours.
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estimate that the computer time
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required each week should not exceed
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four hours.
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No detailed knowledge of the You will have to hire
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interface to the communications a specialist who can
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network is required by the user's understand it.
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programming staff.
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Using our high-level COBOL compiler, 02 NICTRB REDEFINES SLSGTB
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programs can now be written in the PIC X(30).
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English language.
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This particular peripheral is We don't make it, and never
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available on a purchase-only basis. want to see it again once
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you have bought it.
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Local backup with comparable We are hoping to sell a
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installations will be provided. similar configuration to
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another company 350 miles
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away.
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The software we have recommended is We will start writing it as
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in the advanced development stage. soon as you sign the order.
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The equipment can be delivered to We cannot deliver a machine
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suit your requirements, but we for two years.
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estimate that you will not be ready
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to take delivery until considerable
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systems work has been carried out.
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Independent assessment has rated If you don't want our computer
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our data preparation equipment please buy our keypunches.
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among the best available.
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In accordance with our policy of We hereby divest ourselves of
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progressive improvement, the right any responsibility for what we
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is reserved to alter any detail of have said, written, or are
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price, specification, or terms about to say or write.
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without notice.
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(Taken from the October 1968 issue of Datamation)
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