[GreenKeys] RS232 to TTY Loop Boards

[Ralph Mowery]

I uesd a very good (for the time)data base on the TRS-80 computer called 
AIDS, again before the AIDS was a sickness.

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Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] RS232 to TTY Loop Boards


> GA OMs;
>
> I *HATE* acronyms!
>
> I worked for a company that went out-of-their-way to make
> up an acronym for everything.
>
> If that wasn't bad enough, different groups made up acronyms
> that had the same letters as other groups were using which led
> to total confusion when multiple groups would meet.
>
> I worked for a computer company called DATA GENERAL. When the
> IBM-ers started to come on board, they changed most of the
> handful of acronyms we had to something else. Really annoying.
> The only good thing that came out of it was when they changed
> the name of our diagnostics to AIDS - and a year later the
> disease came out...  :-)