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May 1996, Week 4

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Jim Hurst <[log in to unmask]>
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Jim Hurst <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 21 May 1996 10:30:52 -0600
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Bruce Toback wrote:
(snip)
>Ah, then what you want is a Unix or PC solution. The standards are
>changing, and us dinosaurs (over-25s) had better change with them. Today,
>"good enough" IS good enough. People expect to lose some data now and
>then; hasn't "sorry, my computer's down" become as accepted an excuse as
>"sorry, my car wouldn't start"? Read the newspaper "computer advice"
>columns, or go to an "Internet" class. Having the right answer 90% of the
>time is perfectly acceptable; we pocket-protectored techies are just
>being stuffy when we insist that computers and people give right answers.
>
(snip)
Do you ever work with payroll, accounts payable, accounts receivable systems?
(This is not a loaded question. Just immensely curious.)
(Oh, if I took your comments seriously, and you meant otherwise, please excuse!)
 
Jim Hurst,   [log in to unmask]

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