When all else fails, trot out the dog and the pony
Flashback to 1984, when this pilot fish is working at a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C. -- and PCs are about to arrive in the office.
"My users love their IBM Displaywriter stand-alone word processors," says fish. "But PCs can do more, and our IBM salesman assures them that DisplayWrite 2 software, which is a port of the Displaywriter software that runs on the PC, will work just fine. And the staff doesn't have to be retrained!
"But this nonprofit does a lot of mail merges asking members for donations with customized letters. Initial test of the PC with DisplayWrite 2 shows that a mail merge could take up to 30 minutes."
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