Phone switches and office systems. First decent voice mail, callback,
etc. etc. etc. Always battling with Ma Bell. But I was on the
original ROLM side which was Mil-Spec computers and was hired as Systems
engineering and to try to get them into doing a UNIX port which was
bashing my head against the wall in a Data General household... We
made a 65% margin on our sales and, as we called it, threw the profits
over the wall to support the phone systems side which lost money year
after year... But had all the hot buzzz... Everybody remembers phone
ROLM, nobody remembers the side that hauled the mail... I learned how
to read core memory, did a huge amount of assembly language
optimization, got a top-secret clearance in two areas, worked on a
boatload of projects with black curtains all around, and learned who
really pushed the buttons that really mattered...
On 05/09/2019 09:43 AM, [email protected] wrote:
ROLM, have not thought about them for a very long time. They had ISDN
stuff, right?
-----Original Message----- From: Robert Andrews
Sent: Thursday, May 9, 2019 10:31 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT tis the season
They say success kills more businesses... I say it is getting the $$
from people that does. I know of about 5 people who set up businesses,
had fairly good success selling and totally failed at collecting. I
used to work in sales engineering at some big companies ( IBM, ROLM )
and I couldn't believe the number of salesdroids that absolutely had no
sense of making a sale except giving away the product. The customers
saw them coming a mile away ( basically the first phone call ).. These
sales would drag the district results in the toilet for the 6 months to
a year to get rid of the non-sales person and impact results for
years... Usually a 4 to one ratio of salesdroit tries to success..
And these were for products that almost sold themselves... Two
absolute needs in business, the ability to collect ( and twist and arm )
and the ability to fire..
On 05/09/2019 08:15 AM, [email protected] wrote:
No longer Avon. We were first married. She used to lug her stuff
around the small town where I was the “phone man”. I knew absolutely
every person in that town, every dwelling, every dog. I gave her a
nice list so she wasn’t totally cold calling. She enjoyed it until it
came time to collect from some of those wonderful people...
*From:* Ken Hohhof
*Sent:* Thursday, May 9, 2019 9:11 AM
*To:* 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group'
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT tis the season
No longer married, or no longer an Avon lady?
(OK, now that is reminding me of the lame old joke that starts “it
won’t be long until we’re married”.)
*From:*AF <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *[email protected]
*Sent:* Thursday, May 9, 2019 9:57 AM
*To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]>
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT tis the season
I used to be married to one.
*From:*Daniel White
*Sent:*Thursday, May 9, 2019 8:19 AM
*To:*AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
*Subject:*Re: [AFMUG] OT tis the season
They call it out right in the description too:
https://www.avon.com/product/skin-so-soft-bug-guard-plus-ir3535-expedition-spf-30-family-size-pump-spray-47861?rrec=false
Find yourself an Avon lady Chuck :-)
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Lewis Bergman wrote on 5/8/19 19:58:
Avon skin so soft. No idea if they still sell it but when I was in
the USMC it repelled everything from jungles, swamps, and dessert.
On Wed, May 8, 2019, 7:32 PM Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote:
Every year, the biting midge flies come out. Miserable to be
outside my shop during certain hours of the day. I got some
mosquito nets that are to be worn over the hat. The bugs get
through.
Nothing we have tried seems to work. DEET seems to attract them.
We have had a wet spring and there are wetlands next to my
shop. Perfect breeding grounds.
Anyone have suggestions other than tyvec full hazmat suit?
I pine for a bag of DDT wetable powder.
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