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> To my recollection there was a manufacturer of industrial tubing, an accountancy firm, a members club, a precious metals dealer, and stationers. It wasn't Wa
by whartung 3y ago
> To my recollection there was a manufacturer of industrial tubing, an accountancy firm, a members club, a precious metals dealer, and stationers.
It wasn't Wang, but this was my heyday during the 90's. Accounting/Distribution systems for small to medium sized companies. Post Production House, Tire Distribution, Auto parts Distribution, General Warehousing, Meat broker, Magazine Distribution, a Seminary, Wholesale Nursery, a Hotel/Casino.
Everyone needs accounting, and you get a taste of all of these businesses and how they work, especially if you're doing distribution. It was really interesting. Accounting consists of the core modules: General Ledger (your checkbook), Account Payable (your bills), Accounts Receivable (what people owe you). GL/AP/AR. The Casino was very interesting because they don't have an Accounts Receivable, they don't invoice anyone. People just walk in and give them money!
It was the height of the mini computing market, so we were installing systems on everything. HP, DG, Sun, Sequent, PCs, etc. Was a grand time.
- gumby 3y ago> you get a taste of all of these businesses and how they work, especially if you're doing distribution. It was really interesting This is one of the things I really enjoy in inter prose sales: I get to meet customers who are really smart and deeply domain-knowledgeable about some domain I barely know anything about. (Calls to mind Blake’s comment that one can “See a world in a grain of sand”). Of course some customers, or at least the representatives one meets on a sales call, are numbskulls, but in general this isn’t the case.