IP: Oh well Vax in a suitcase -- maybe a reporting error or does the NYT know something I dont know :-)

[David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

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> Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 09:01:57 -0500
> To: farber () cis upenn edu
> From: gaj () portman com (Gordon Jacobson)
> Subject: Re: IP: Vax in a suitcase -- maybe a reporting error or does
>   the NYT know something I dont know :-)
>
> Its a report from the "On This Day in History" column.  Usually 
> quotes the paper from time frames as long back as 50 years.  I 
> didn't bother to check when the above quote was ref'd to, but it 
> would appear that we are talking about the period during which the 
> Marine Barrks in Beiruit where blown up and from the Grenada 
> invasion.
>
> GAJ
>
> At 08:35 PM 10/30/99 -0400, you wrote:
> > http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/deal/1031on_this_day.html
> >
> > The Business of Keeping Up to Date
> >
> > By CLYDE H. FARNSWORTH
> >
> >
> > WASHINGTON -- Information is money, or so goes one of the axioms of 
> > Wall Street. Treasury Secretary Donald T. Regan, after years as a 
> > commodity and stock trader, has found that in Washington 
> > information is power as well.
> > One result is that he never goes anywhere without a portable 
> > computer terminal, the size of a tote bag, that can be plugged by 
> > telephone hookup into the Treasury's Executive Information System.
> > This is a microchip marvel of ''menus'' offering foreign exchange 
> > and other market prices; brief accounts of the latest news from 
> > Tokyo, Bonn, Moscow and more out-of- the-way places, and other 
> > specialized, even classified, data that can be called up on the 
> > screen when the right combination of keys is punched.
> >
> > In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, last week, Mr. Regan's friendly computer, 
> > marked Digital Equipment Vax, provided the fastest and easiest way 
> > to find out what was happening not only to the dollar but to the 
> > marines on Grenada and in Beirut.
> >
> > Like a vacuum cleaner, the Treasury scoops up facts and figures 
> > from around the world 24 hours a day to support a variety of the 
> > housekeeping chores it performs, ranging from managing the nation's 
> > debt and ready cash to collecting its taxes and tariffs.
> > 'Treasury Never Sleeps'