DEC still strong in government / academia

From: vance_at_neurotica.com <(vance_at_neurotica.com)>
Date: Sun Feb 2 03:28:46 2003

On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Sellam Ismail wrote:

> > When I was registering my company in the San Diego County Clerk's
> > office in June of last year (that's the same place where couples tie
> > the knot on this side of the pond) I was similarly delighted to see
> > all the clerks typing on DEC terminals, with DECconnect cables running
> > around the office.
>
> The County Recorder's office in Alameda County (home county of Oakland
> and Berkeley, CA) has all up to date Windows machines for doing look-ups
> and such. The last time I came through to register stuff was about 5
> years ago and they had those clunky IBM terminals.

I'd take a 3278 over a PC any day.

Peace... Sridhar
Received on Sun Feb 02 2003 - 03:28:46 GMT