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From: baccala%usna.arpa.usna.arpa@BRL.ARPA (Brent W Baccala)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
Subject: suggestions: DBMS, accounting, WP
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Date: Wed, 26-Nov-86 23:18:30 EST
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A friend of mine wants to start an employment agency using a micro as the
primary means of information storage.  What he wants is a data base
manager for the data itself; supplemented by accounting and word-processing
systems.  Any recomendations for good hardware/software to support this?
Since this is a start-up, public domain, shareware, and other low-cost
products would be prefered.  A similiar situation applies to the hardware.

I couldn't help him much on the software end, except for some more-or-less
sweeping generalizations as to what's out there.  My hardware recomendations
were: Epson for a printer (reliability), a hard disk (volume; at least 5MB,
hopefully 10 to start with), something well-known (support and expandability;
if this venture grows you don't want to be entering all the data by hand.
On this line, does anyone know of ANY "fill-in-the-bubble-form" readers
that can be hooked up to a micro?).

Please reply directly; I don't normally read this list.  Thanks.

			- BRENT W. BACCALA -
			Aerospace Engineering Department
			U.S. Naval Academy
			Annapolis, MD

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