Your car has been on the road of TWENTY YEARS>  TWENTY YEARS MAN!  Get
me a break with the 30,000.  If you use analogies they must be fair
and make sense.  It is obvious there is some serious fear out there
among some people that will either need to be re-trained (by people
that are 20 years younger) or unemployed.

Cort's windows system is Y2K and has been since day one.   Why would
you think differently?

Aaron

On Tue, 24 Mar 1998 11:42:42 +0000, Roy Brown <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>In article <[log in to unmask]>, Stan Sieler
><[log in to unmask]> writes
>>Aaron writes:
>>
>>> I have been a Cort user for years on the HP3000.  I am loving the Cort
>>> PC package that we are going to.  Most of the users I have spoken with
>>...
>>> The PC stuff is really good and you don't do your firms any good by
>>> not even looking at it.
>>
>>Aaron, consider it this way:
>>
>>   Your car has 30,000 miles on it.
>>
>>   It needs a tuneup, perhaps.  Maybe there's a little dust on it.
>>
>>   You see a flashy Porsche zoom by.
>>
>>   You jump, abandoning your car for the Porsche.
>>
>>Yep...that's what you just did with the PC vs the 3000.
>>
>Except when you get up closer, you find it's actually a Pinto,
>projecting a *hologram* of being a Porsche.....
>
>Every twenty or thirty miles, it slows down for no reason. You and your
>passengers open and close all the windows, and it speeds up again. You
>accept this as inevitable.
>
>Every two or three hundred miles, it stops completely for no reason. You
>and your passengers have to get out, close all the doors, reopen the
>doors, get in again, and it will restart. For some reason, you are
>prepared to accept this also.
>
>Every two or three thousand miles, it *really* stops. You do the above,
>but it is insufficient. You need to haul the engine right out, and
>reinstall it. But for some reason you even accept this too.
>
>Despite all this, you decide it would be a good idea to put thousands
>and thousands of dollars in the trunk, which doesn't lock properly,
>right above the petrol tank, and try to drive to where a large body of
>people, some of them built like brick outhouses and with all the
>patience and understanding of a land mine, are waiting for this money,
>expecting it to arrive on time, and to be distributed correctly.
>
>You can scoff as you pass my armoured panel truck initially, but guess
>who is going to pass who later on, pulled over on the shoulder with
>smoke coming from the hood?
>
>
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