Aucbvax.6347 fa.works utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!works Tue Mar 2 03:25:18 1982 where's the innovation >From REM@MIT-MC Tue Mar 2 02:58:23 1982 Offices/businesses aren't yet automated. I can't yet pay even my telephone bill by computer dialup, thus Crocker Bank and Pacific Telephone aren't yet automated enough for what I want. Small businesses are pathetic by comparison. Family Services, a private counseling agency with state funds aid, does bookkeeping manually (pen and pad) except for a printing calculator to do additions and subtractions on (data is manually seen on the ledger and punched into the calculator, and the result is manually copied back to the ledger). ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.