My bad. In our case (large government facility already running 3 - or 6 - IBM 360 mainframes) the hardware were all IBM PCs, green-screen monitors, keyboards, no mice or trackball. One piece of software was out of place - Lotus 123 - yellow and blue (green?) box.
They were really sweating that all the secretaries would take forever to learn to use them. Production would suffer, tempers would flare. Classes were held, etc.. They survived. My department already had color monitors with light-pens, hooked to the mainframes, mostly used for production timing and scheduling. On May 23, 2013, at 08:04 , John Sessoms wrote: > From: Joseph McAllister >> In the early 80's Microsoft practically gave away their PCs and all >> their software to many government offices. They even included the >> bookcase for all those maroon boxes with gold lettering. Out went the >> Wang terminals, in came the PCs. > > I don't remember Microsoft doing hardware. When we got our first office > computers in the Army, they were from Zenith Data Systems. > > The only Microsoft software they ran was MS-DOS 3.3. > > The "office" function was handled by a bundled program called "Enable" - with > a spreadsheet, word processor & presentation program. Joseph McAllister [email protected] -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
