Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!hplabs!hpl-opus!hpccc!dlw
From: dlw@hpccc.HP.COM (David Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: APDA (need I say more)
Message-ID: <5360045@hpccc.HP.COM>
Date: 21 Mar 90 00:47:35 GMT
References: <10948@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
Organization: HP Corp Computing & Services
Lines: 25

>mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Michael Thomas Niehaus) writes:
>I gave APDA a call today (to order some source code examples for the
>CommToolbox).  Apparently their computer is down and won't be back up
>until Wednesday.  They took my order by hand, and said that they will

Gee, you'd think they'd be using 4D as a front end and could store it locally.

>send out what I need on Wednesday.  (I'm crossing my fingers.  It only
>took them 3 tries to get the right membership number, and 2 to get the
>credit card number right.  Come to think of it, I didn't check the item
>number.  Uh, oh.)

>You would think that an organization operated by a computer company would
>have better computer systems.  (Are they made by IBM by chance?)

Yup and DEC. Too bad Apple doesn't use reliable HP Minicomputers
instead of bogus ol Big Blue boxes and Vaxen. ;)

-David "Who me trying to start something?" Williams
"Bringing a TOTALLY unbiased view from...;)" 
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
David L. Williams   | Hewlett Packard  MS:46G   | Distributed  |Information
dlw@hpda.HP.COM     | 19447 Pruneridge Ave      | Application  |Architecture
...!hplabs!hpda!dlw | Cupertino, Ca 95014       | Architecture |Group
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%