Today in 1975 , computer hackers in Silicon Valley held the first meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club, whose members would go on to have great influence on the development of the personal computer. The open exchange of ideas that went on at its biweekly meetings, and the club newsletter, launched the personal computer revolution. The Homebrew Computer Club went on to be referred to as “the crucible for an entire industry.”
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With SIMMS 2015, sales order and quote histories are available, keeping information readily available for sales staff during calls and communications with customers. Exact stock details make sales history an useful tool to allow customer satisfaction to remain a primary goal. Consequently, warehousing personnel can easily process shipments, track their contents and provide all answers to all questions that may arise.
Requests for quotes (RFQ) and order placements are quick since necessary information either already exists in the system or is provided on-the-spot. Shipping information, costs, available inventory, prices specific to the customer, status of ordered items, and quantity pricing is all at hand on a single screen. SIMMS 2015′ Sales Data is there where it is needed so that important decisions and processes can be implemented to maintain efficient service and accuracy for the benefit of both your business and your customers.
As SIMMS 2015 is adopted for use, sales analysis information will become readily accessible tools, improving decision-making and profit analysis. The conduct of sales transactions, filling of backorders, and transfers of stock to where it is required enables SIMMS 2015 users to make improvements to sales campaign and inventory management criteria.
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MARCH 2, 1939 – HOWARD CARTER, who led the expedition that uncovered King Tut’s tomb, dies at age 64. Carter lived sixteen years after his discovery and died of natural causes—so much for the so-called Curse of the Pharaohs.
Questions of the day:
1. What city boasted the world’s first subway line?
2. What novel begins in the Sandleford warren?
3. Where would you find the King’s Palace, the Papoose Room, and the Witch’s Finger?
4. Who is buried in Paris’s Père Lachaise cemetery, except for his heart, which is sealed inside a pillar in a Warsaw chapel?
5. By a wide margin (more than three to two), what’s the most abundant element in the Earth’s crust?
In 1970, Steve Wozniak played a huge prank by distributing 25,000 leaflets for a non-existent computer, which was later referred to as the Zaltair Hoax.
The ENIAC had 20,000 vacuum tubes and 40 racks of equipment, and ran up a daily electric bill of $60, a large amount at the time, the mid 1940s.
The first computer to perform a trillion operations per second was called the Gravity Pipeline.
Les Solomon, publisher of the magazine Popular Electronics, and Ed Roberts were looking for a name to release their new computer under. They finally called it the Altair.
Mitch Kapor founded Lotus Development Corp. in 1982 with Jonathan Sachs, who was instrumental in launching Lotus 1-2-3.
Founder Paul Gavin came up with the name Motorola when his company started manufacturing radios for motorcars.
In 1989, Steve Chase, Founder of the Internet Bulletin-Board System Quantum Computer Services, renamed it America Online.
Vinton Cerf Is hailed as the Father of the Internet, and earned his nickname when he co-authored, with Dr Robert Kahn in 1973, a paper that gave the world TCP and IP.
On 4 July, 1996, Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith launched Hotmail. In 1997, they sold it to Microsoft for an estimated price of 385 million.
AT&T Bell Labs was the first company to transmit human voice across the Atlantic, on January 25, 1915. The exercise was conducted to celebrate the opening of the Panama Canal to Alexander Graham Bell.
How to implement effectively is the key success factor in demand-supply chain management. A complete guide to effective implementation doesn’t exist, however, important parts of the answer can provide a good place to start on implementation.
The first, and crucial point, is to understand that selling in is the key to implementation in the demand-supply chain. This is simply because collaborative business processes go across organizational boundaries, and new solutions have to be “sold,” before there can be buy-in and implementation. When new and more efficient customer-centric processes are developed and deployed in business process re-engineering projects, only lip service is paid to the insights that marketing, customer relationship, and key account management have about the customer. At the same time, sales and marketing functions continue working with customers undisturbed by operational constraints. The key to successful implementation is integration, not only of supply and demand inside the company but across the whole demand-supply chain.
The following factors enable process improvements:
– William E. Hoover, Jr.
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• Femande Olivier lived with Picasso for seven years when she was
young and poor. She was not impressed with his paintings, which included many portraits of her that she thought unflattering. In 1912 she moved out and took with her a little heart-shaped mirror as her only memento of the years with the Spanish painter. She never saw Picasso again, and died in poverty in 1966. A few years after her death, a cubist painting of her by Picasso sold for $790,000.
• In 1853 John Coffee built the jail in Dundalk, Ireland. He went
bankrupt on the project and became the first inmate of his own jail.
• I. N. Terrill, a member of the legislature, wrote the criminal law
statutes for Oklahoma, and was the first person convicted under the law for murder.
• The inmates at the prison in Concord, New Hampshire, spend
their days making the state’s license plates which bear the motto
“LIVE FREE OR DIE”.
• The memorial statue erected in Vienna to the memory of composer Franz Schubert cost more than the luckless genius earned from his work during his lifetime.
Development, growth, insight, energy and innovation will always create a path that leads to where everyone will travel. With an eye on a constantly-changing horizon, you will always be adding improvements to any system you already have. Out-of-the-box solution from problems of today limit you to just those challenges and rarely present opportunities to add in solutions for tomorrow’s challenges. But with software that grows with you and your business — an evolution both fluid and practical — you stand a better chance of retaining your lead and providing novel and feature-rich paths for your future.
Today’s competitive business world requires that every aspect of the business is up and running and not suffering from down-time. With SIMMS Inventory Management system, you’re almost instantly online, so that service and billing can begin. Unlike systems that are cobbled together from sparse and unrelated pieces, SIMMS has already assembled multiple technologies and work management systems to coordinate its installation, meaning that not only is each user up-and-running correctly, but also that their billing system is equally current.
Taking time to haggle with your technology and management departments over needed features when you have a wait-til-next-version open in front of you is limiting and debilitating when the needs are current and pressing. Few of us have enough patience for this, and we should not have to wait very long. Your relationship with your software contacts can make open customization the rule rather than the exception. Their product will be better as soon as possible, and your business will not have some impediment hold your company back.
Contact KCSI today to find out more about the features SIMMS 2015 already has and get your foot in the door as to how it will be in its updated version. Mutual benefits are right around the corner for you with SIMMS 2015 from its accuracy, ease-of-use and constant evolution.
1981 was the year that PCs began, when IBM debuted the IBM PC. Microsoft shipped it with BASIC. The operating system was also developed by Microsoft.
Alan Turing is considered the father of Computer Science. In 1937, he published the paper “On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entsheidungsproblem”.
Beginning in 1934, Konrad Zuse, a German engineer, built a series of computers, the Z1 through Z4, utilizing binary arithmetic.
Christopher Pile was sentenced to 18 months for releasing a toolkit that would boost the impact of existing viruses by randomizing their codes.
Claude Shannon is usually called the father of Information Technology. In 1948, he published “A Mathematical Theory of Communication” in the Bell System Technical Journal.
In 1951, Jay Forrester and Robert Everett, graduate students at MIT, constructed the ‘ Whirlwind,’ a ‘real-time computer,’ working at twice the speed of the ENIAC.
In 1969, computer firm Honeywell released the H316 “Kitchen Computer”, the first home computer, priced at $10,600.
In 1976, the term “personal computer” first appeared in print, in the May issue of Byte Magazine.
In 1981, while working on the original version of Microsoft’s Disk Operating System (DOS), Bill Gates made a remarkable prediction: “640 K (of RAM) should be enough for anyone.”
The first ‘computer’, the steam-driven calculating machine, was built in 1823 by Charles Babbage.
The first high-level programming language was Fortran. It was developed in 1956 by an IBM team headed by John Backus. Fortran became commercially available in 1957.
The first object-oriented language was Simula. It was developed by Kristen Nygaard and Ole-Johan Dahl in the mid 1960s.
The incredible feat of a Seagate Read/Write head is like a 747 going 600 mph at three feet off the ground, counting blades of grass as it flies by.
The term ‘bug’ was probably coined after Admiral Grace Hopper found a moth in the Mark II computer at the US Naval Surface Warfare Center, causing the machine to malfunction.
Professor William Lutz is the author of Doublespeak and The New Doublespeak — two books that detail the way people in our culture manipulate language to hide the truth. Both are fascinating—and it was hard to pick just one subject from the books to reprint.
THE RULE OF PARITY
The first rule of advertising is that nothing is what it seems. . .which brings us to the Rule of Parity.
Products such as gasoline, toothpaste, soap, aspirin, and cold remedies (plus a long list of others) are called parity products. This simply means that most of the brands in their category are pretty much the same. Most toothpastes, for example, are made the same way, with pretty much the same formula. There is no essential difference—so as far as the law is concerned, all toothpastes are equal.
Now comes the interesting part.
Get that? In the world of advertising doublespeak, “better” means “best,” but “best” means only “equal to.”
The next time you see an ad for the gasoline that claims to be “the best for your car,” the razor that gives you the “best shave going,” or the toothpaste that is “best for your teeth,” remember that these claims simply mean that each of these brands is as good as any other brand. As Humpty Dumpty said to Alice, “When 1 use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”