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Conference 7.286::digital

Title:	The Digital way of working

Moderator:	QUARK::LIONELON

Created:	Fri Feb 14 1986
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	5321
Total number of notes:	139771

3407.0. "Urgent: need a notebook with 20MB RAM " by AZUR::NGUYEN (Jeannine Nguyen - EIC VBO - 828-5193) Fri Sep 23 1994 05:38

    I need ASAP (for Monday 26-Sep or Tuesday 27-Sep latest here in VBO,
    France) a notebook (DEC 425SLC/e Premium or from any other vendor) with 
    20MB of RAM and a 200MB of hard disk for a key customer demo.
    
    My order for a 16MB SIMM (PCPSM-AC) has been registered since May but 
    AYR still runs out of it. It seems to be a manufacturing problem.
    
    Mext week we are going to have a key customer demo with about 1M$
    revenue behind and we cannot postpone it anymore.
    
    If you have a notebook with this config (I know that in UK, it exists
    COMPAQ notebooks with 20MB RAM), or the above SIMM card, or any
    other suggestion to run an application that requires 20MB of RAM and
    25MB of virtual memeory at a customer site in UK, please contact me or
    drop me a mail (during the week-end you can all me at (33)93 85 30 41).
    
    Please help, I would appreciate.
    
    Best regards,
    Jeannine

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
3407.1	rent one	ICS::BEAN	Attila the Hun was a LIBERAL!	`Sun Sep 25 1994 23:25`	1

3407.2	Would a customer wait or shop elsewhere ?	AZUR::NGUYEN	Jeannine Nguyen - EIC VBO - 828-5193	`Mon Sep 26 1994 04:37`	7
	It's what I am doing but before giving any authorization (since we are going to rent non-DEC H/W), high-level management always asks the usual have-you-checked-internally-if-you-could-borrow-one question. Why do we, notebook manufacturer with a 16MB simm in the price list, have to rent an outside vendor H/W that requires all the VP signature procedures ?
3407.3		ICS::BEAN	Attila the Hun was a LIBERAL!	`Mon Sep 26 1994 10:14`	13
	Why do we, ..., have to rent an outside vendor H/W...? good question. If you find out the answer, please post it here. I have a rented Compaq on my desk. We use rented PC's in many of our classrooms (I work for customer training) and I've OFTEN wondered why we continually shoot ourselves in the foot this way. IMO it is a symptom of management not really being committed to desktop computing. Those same VPs you mention who must sign the requisition to purchase/rent probably don't even USE PCs themselves... unless it's being used for a video terminal. tony
3407.4		QUARK::LIONEL	Free advice is worth every cent	`Mon Sep 26 1994 10:57`	3
	We don't make our own notebook PCs - they're made by AST. Steve
3407.5	It's what's on it that counts a little!	CSC32::M_AUSTIN	Michael,804-237-3796,OLTP-EC	`Mon Sep 26 1994 20:36`	7
	>>We don't make our own notebook PCs - they're made by AST. YEs, but they have OUR name on it!! Mike A. DECpc325P user/a.DEC433MP user/VAXStation user/DECstation user DOS SCO Unix VMS Ultrix and if I had an ALPHA, I would have two - 1 for OSF/1 and 1 for VMS
3407.6		PASTIS::MONAHAN	humanity is a trojan horse	`Tue Sep 27 1994 03:46`	11
	re: .3 The manager of this group (same group as the author of .0) is very keen on desktop computing, not to say handheld computing. In fact this machine (VS2000) was his dial-in host several years ago for challenge/response dial authentication of his pocket PC from hotels throughout Europe, in the days when the local IS staff didn't understand that form of secure dial-in. However, even the most enthusiastic manager doesn't have a licence to print money, and there is a site wide guideline to reduce desktop equipment because desktop equipment is taxed.