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Old 05-22-2012, 01:35 AM   #12
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Originally Posted by fjtorres View Post
I remember Wang.
Just as we started getting PCs, central IT "gifted" our group with a $30K Wang system for the secretaries.
The facilities people, looking to save a few bucks, shut down building A/C one weekend in august. Took over a week to fix the system and recover the data.
Our PC ATs? Didn't even notice.
The boss did notice and committed to a full PC migration.

The big publishers are looking to textbooks to make up their pbook losses.
The HMH example may be a warning: relying on "the public largesse" is no sure thing.
The problem for those supplying the public sector - rather than the chaos of the market - is that when they are cut off it is usually brutal. No slow decline, no time to recover, it's like being guillotined.
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