Larry Boyd <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Reminds me of the time (10 years ago now) of when I ran a mortgage
>company's MIS.  We were in the process of being sold and a president of
>another mortgage company of the same size sat in my office and asked
>basically the same thing.  How could we run a $1.6 *billion* annual
>funding mortgage company with *3* people and one HP3000?  They had 34
>on some kind of an IBM.  I didn't take the credit because I figured it
>was too easy for them to figure out that it wasn't anything
>extraordinary that I was doing -- Everyone who ran 70s in those days
>had just a few people compared to the IBM shops (or DEC, or ...).

Do you believe that this has changed now?  I think you have an excellent
selling point for NEW HP3000s right now, at the end of the 1990s  :-)

Now that you are at HP, perhaps you can internally bend their ears a little
bit...

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