The computer vendors have been my greatest educators. I am generally impressed by their smart talk. What I gather from one vendor, I use it to cross question and test the next. This ensures that the second is impressed by my computer-awareness. They usually adopt their favourite method of prompt disposal by marking '' please speak '' on the papers.
Some vendors are crooked .Some are pretty.
This may be followed by placing an order for a box, or two, of floppies, depending on the level of communication and future prospects perceived. It is often alleged, and I do agree, that computers lying in some offices are proving to be white elephants. The reason for this is quite simple. While utmost care is taken to select the best available hardware, we usually tend to forget that humanware is ultimately the deciding factor for their performance or otherwise. Half-baked computer professionals, like me, are only too happy to note that computers too are fallible like human beings.