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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).

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