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My boss at the photo lab where I worked wanted a computer system to record every sale, and track the profit and loss. We were using a cash register, and it was only doing part of the job.
He went to the local IBM sales place, and ended up getting talked into a IBM PC. in 81 or 82. It was $5,000 and had two floppies and a small hard drive. We set it up folowing the instructions and saw
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Now what? There was no software at all anywhere. We were going to have to become programmers. He boxed it up, and took it back and explained what he wanted. They sent him back with a IBM System 36 and it had an actual accounting program, that was pretty fundamental. He found a local programmer to modify the code to fit our needs.
Later when the IBM AT was released he got one of those with the 32 MB hard drive and 2 MB of RAM. He bought Lotus 123 version 1. He could finally massage the data like he wanted that the System 36 generated. He became a pretty good wiz at Lotus 123.
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Glen
49 Year member of the Porsche Club of America
1985 911 Carrera; 2017 Macan
1986 El Camino with Fuel Injected 350 Crate Engine
My Motto: I will never be too old to have a happy childhood!
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