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I know yeah what time it is there we

need the proposal here type even the

footnotes here for the meaning antenna

what happens if we increase quarters for

the Minneapolis region what does that do

to the forecast

I don't know what after we figure the

whole plan you give me till tomorrow

we don't have till tomorrow ed but this

can't be right sandy my plane leaves at

11:30 and I don't get to Denver until

7:30 I better call the travel agency

and tell Creighton we're on with the rlg

people for two o'clock all right I'll

tell him myself later when I see him

oh and Sharon did we receive the payroll

figure look I know it's not your fault

what am I supposed to do I need this

information now to make decisions you

need information information that is

accurate up-to-date and in a forum you

can use the question is how do you get

it

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oh here's the revised budget Tom thanks

Ricky

sorry about all the changes I don't know

what kind of company you have big or

small but I do know you probably need a

lot of information to make it all work

a good deal of typing to do memos

correspondence budgets for letters

reports and documents to revise because

people make changes an IBM display

writer can help you with all that it

sure helps me it prints out what I need

and we have the capability to access

outside information sources such as

airline schedules pretty fancy for a

small office like this huh Oh Ricky

about that flight tomorrow afternoon to

you Stan what'd you find out let me see

I've got it right here there's one at

150 direct to Houston you get a snack

I'll take it the flight or the snack

both think just any word processor can

do that uh uh

the IBM display writer is also a

communication system that brings data

from the outside world right into your

office it also creates graphics to help

you analyze information quickly

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Tom here in the charts you need for the

budget meeting in Houston

you're amazing Ricky the display riders

amazing me I'm hungry lunchtime

I'm going to lunch Lee while I'm out the

display writer keeps on working either

as a word processor or a communication

system even as a way to tackle lots of

data processing jobs Lee uses it to help

with bookkeeping payroll billing before

we got the display writer I used to eat

lunch at my desk at least once a week no

more see in an hourly buy

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hey let me talk about work not

especially one question okay what if we

reduce the inventory 225,000 what

happens it's hard to say

oh how soon before we can get an answer

about 30 minutes after we get through

the office

good morning Debbie could you go to that

data that you've got on diskette and

give me a printout Rodgers wants an

update on sales by 2:20 okay it really

doesn't matter if yours is a four or

five person office or a company with

four or five locations the display

writer can fit productively into most

any environment we need to add the new

inventory data to this proposal can you

put it together for me sure

one thing the display writer has done

for us is let us take a basic

workstation like this and tap the

greater computer power of other systems

in our company that's economy the

display writer emulates a 3270 terminal

so it can take data directly from our

business computer and merge it with text

to produce a complete accurate document

you want to see what happens if we

change that number yes look

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not bad the display rider is also a

great tool for managers who need data to

make calculation forecast sales and

budget and manage information to make

decisions good good now say we bring

this down to say four million what

happens then that's it that's what we go

with here's the customer proposal with

new inventory figures thanks maybe what

the display writer does best is help

people become more productive anyway

we're sending out the new sales figures

today herb says you need him snow or no

snow

what can the display writer do for a big

company well for one thing it's designed

to be part of a larger information

network throughout our whole operation

have you looked over the sales forecast

for the final report Pete I did and

there are a couple of things that I'd

like to talk to you about before we send

it off to her in fact you haven't been

it no this area seems to work well now

sure does Pete the figures we put in the

forecast this morning did a job guess

we'll do it the display writer can also

access our company's host computer and

give our managers the information they

need right on the spot Fran Evans signed

off on that report transmitted a copy to

Brian in New York and herb in Chicago

and then as soon as they approve will

need 20 copies for our meeting here okay

the display writer is versatile by

connecting it to our host computer and

to other IBM equipment like the 66 70

and the 55 20 the display writer

distributes information from one office

to another and it does it faster and

usually more economically than mail or

courier services copies can be sent down

the hall or across the country

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I'm back from lunch leader Billy and

covered the phones for me well I guess

by now you realize the display Rider is

more than just another word processor

mr. Devine wants Abby's figures to the

report you're doing says he needs it

today they'll do it

neatest revised Ricky also charts for

the sales meeting we'll get them for you

me and my display Rider

there's nothing like it it's my friend

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