Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!eagle!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!ABN.ISCAMS@usc-isid From: ABN.ISCAMS%usc-isid@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: Byte reader service cards Message-ID: <16561@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Tue, 7-Feb-84 20:59:00 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.16561 Posted: Tue Feb 7 20:59:00 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Feb-84 07:06:29 EST Lines: 20 I confess -- I am one of those culprits who circle the little number on the card if I'm halfway interested. But (and maybe this makes the difference for those vendors who DO continue to support reader service cards) -- I AM halfway interested, and in several cases (admittedly out of dozens), the follow-up literature DID give me the additional information necessary to make a "well informed selection" and purchase. I suppose I've bugged poor old Sage and Compupro half to death with periodic requests for more brochures -- but they keep coming out with new or upgraded products, and I NEED to know what they're up to. I'm a link in the specification/procurement part of micros here where I work, and have considerable influence/impact on specs and acceptances -- and I MUST know where the state of the art (and marketplace) is. I cannot specify by brand name, and insist on "competitive procurement", but to KNOW what vendors CAN offer.... that's important, and I feel all the companies I send off to for literature have a fair chance of getting their money back. Regards, David Kirschbaum