Re: Where's the WorkGroup Server Download?
Posted in 1996
Billy Wheeler wrote: > > > > > Dear INFORMIX, > > > > Excuse me for asking, but I'm confused... > > > > You said you'd have a downloadable Workgroup Server for July,1996. > > > > WHERE IS IT? > > > > Still 14 more days till August, Tim. :-) > > -- > Ciao, > > Billy > > +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | | > | Billy Wheeler Director The West Solutions Group | > | | > | (E) billy@west.co.za (U) http://www.west.co.za/billy.html | > | (W) +27 11 803 2151 (F) +27 11 803 2189 | > | (C) +27 83 250 2324 (H) You must be joking! | > | | > +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thanks Billy... :-) The journey continues... I had a report running and had a moment to transcribe this ascii shockwave simulation...hope the tabs don't screw it up too much... :-) ============================== A FICTIONAL ACCOUNT ============================= VISUAL AUDIO WIDE ANGLE SHOT OF CAPCOM: This is mission control, MISSION CONTROL ROOM we've heard nothing yet... uh, coming up on 17 days into the scheduled download, and informix astronauts are still in a, uh, communications blackout. We're not sure what the problem is, and still trying to get through... we'll be talking with FADE IN CAPTION AT BOTTOM OF SCREEN: Phil White shortly, to try and get a comment on this situation... Next scheduled event: Live video feed from Menlo Park, interview with Phil INFORMIX mission control, do you read? FADE OUT Mission Control FADE IN Menlo Park TALKING HEAD OF PHIL WHITE Phil: Ub, well, er I guess we're on VIDEO SIGNAL SPUTTERING now? Background audio: Not yet Phil, not yet... 3, 2, 1 you're on... go man GO Phil: Oh, well, guess we're on... heh heh... well, guess you're probably wondering what the delay is, and uh, well, quite frankly the problem is SCREEN GOES BLANK ...about a minute later... CUT TO WIDE ANGLE SHOT OF CAPCOM: This is mission control, MISSION CONTROL ROOM we've heard nothing yet... uh, coming up on 17 days into the scheduled download, and informix astronauts are still in a, uh, communications blackout. We're not sure what the problem is, and still trying to get through... we'll be talking with FADE IN CAPTION AT BOTTOM OF SCREEN: Phil White shortly, to try and get a comment on this situation... Next scheduled event: Live video feed from Menlo Park, interview with Phil INFORMIX, mission control do you read? -- \\\\|// (6 6) ==============================---o00--(_)--00o---============================ Tim Schaefer tschaefe@encore.com tschaefe@shadow.net www.shadow.net/~tschaefe http://www.lp.org Liberty! http://www.cato.org =============================================================================