Re: tlug: parallel-port IDE

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, John De Hoog wrote:

> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Who will pay my bus fare and substitute in my classes?  Oh, for the
> > freedom to hang out in Akihabara!  Just once a month would be nice.
> 
> You've done a context switch. The topic of discussion is not about
> procuring for universities out in the inaka, but about running a
> business in Tokyo. You have my deepest sympathies, in any case.
> 
> Funny, though, when I was in a position similar to yours, we had vendors
> calling on us who were capable programmers, could keep us supplied with
> the latest hardware module upgrades, and spoke good English. This was in
> Tokyo, however, and in the CP/M days. Today, I suppose, people with good
> knowledge about computers prefer consulting jobs over sales work.
> Margins are different today than they were then, for one thing. In those
> days, consulting and sales were pretty similar.

There's a guy in my church who is constantly saying that good UNIX people
are impossible to find in this country, Japanese, gaijin, or otherwise.
Is this true?  Maybe that's why PHT Japan had to import me :)

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
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