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Help me remember, please

 

Hello,

While I was the lead systems programmer at OCF Research Facility, my boss and I went to lunch with a salesperson who was trying to sell us a drum (2305, I thought).? This would have been 1981 and 1982.? I remember because I made a faux pas by showing my desire for a drum unit.? I didn't realize we were there for a free lunch and yes, a sales pitch, but mostly the free lunch.

It was my last "free lunch" from a salesperson until Amdahl tried selling a 470 to Cray Research, Inc.

Bertram Moshier
WB8ERT
 

On Mon, 3 Jun 2024 at 03:25, Bertram Moshier via <herc370390vm=[email protected]> wrote:

While I was the lead systems programmer at OCF Research Facility, my boss and I went to lunch with a salesperson who was trying to sell us a drum (2305, I thought).? This would have been 1981 and 1982.?

The 2305 was a fixed-head disk, but many people called it a drum. The early 1980s would have been quite late in the game for buying a 2305. I'd guess what you were being sold was a solid state replacement of one sort or another (remember bubble memory?) - there were two or three companies who started offering these around that time.

I remember because I made a faux pas by showing my desire for a drum unit.? I didn't realize we were there for a free lunch and yes, a sales pitch, but mostly the free lunch.

Drum unit as in the musical kit...?
?
It was my last "free lunch" from a salesperson until Amdahl tried selling a 470 to Cray Research, Inc.

These days many (most?) companies have strict rules on who can accept lunch from whom, and even who can have a meeting with any kind of vendor rep.

Tony H.

 

On 6/3/24 10:36, Tony Harminc wrote:
These days many (most?) companies have strict rules on who can accept lunch from whom, and even who can have a meeting with any kind of vendor rep.
Yeah, but that's because upper management wants to keep all the bribes for themselves. ;)

-Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA

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