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Re: Busy, busy, busy!

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From: Greg Wright
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 1994 22:03
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In article <32u5na$k92@zagnut.cs.umd.edu>, Kevin Hsu <hash@cs.umd.edu> wrote:
>In article <32u3bf$215@sashimi.wwa.com> wwb@sashimi.wwa.com (Bud Bach) writes:
>>426 by 4pm?  I would have expected more like 4000.  They need a few
>>more order takers.  -- Bud

[Snip!]

>
>I think she probably means that SHE sold 400 copies...
>

I got through today at 12:00( noon PST) and the operator there
had sold over 300 herself! She said that in her building there
were 3 other operators but that the -800 number get routed to
operators all over the nation. There is, evidently, no one cent-
ral place for order taking...distributed computing eh! :-)

greg

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From: gregory@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (Greg Wright)
Subject: Re: Busy, busy, busy!
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