RE: MAPICS Old Fogies (was "mapics 6")

The Marcam Purchasing system must have been about as bad as GMD's purchasing 
module!  Talking about duplicate databases...you had it then!  I have many not 
so fond memories of it!

Rusty Jackson



>===== Original Message From mapics-l@midrange.com =====
>Okay, I'm going to jump in. Did anyone use the MARCAM Purchasing System ???
>If we all remember in the old days MAPICS had no Purchasing Module. After
>you
>completed receiving one would "Send RP's to MAPICS".
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>I can attest for Gail Crane, I over tell her she was the beta site for
>MAPICS-BC.
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>Just kidding Gail.
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>                    "John C. Bradley"
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>I've started this thread after being "inspired" by
>Dave Shaw and Gail L Crane claiming 19 years of
>MAPICS experience.
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>In this context, "Fogies" is gender neutral and
>refers to years using MAPICS, not biological age
>. . . yeah, right!
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>I fired up S/34 MAPICS-I on March 5, 1980.
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>It was chiseled on clay tablets in cuneiform, but
>my trusty folding cuneiform template enabled me to
>decode it.
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>We used MAPICS to (blush) run a bricks and mortar
>business that built stuff you could touch and try
>to profit therefrom.  Quaint, huh?
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