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Tony P.
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In article >,
says...
> Tony P. wrote:
> > In article >,
> >
says...
> >> Tony P. wrote:
> >>> In article >,
> >>>
says...
> >>>> Weekend edition. I was interviewed about how to use leftovers from
> >>>> Thanksgiving.
> >>>>
> >>> Software analyst from Memphis huh? Do you work for Synchronics by
> >>> chance?
> >>
> >> (laughing) Not lately. I worked for them back in 1989-1990.
> >>
> >> Jill
> >
> > In the time frame 1997 to 2001 I installed their POS package on a
> > whole
> > bunch of computers. It wasn't bad and probably one of the better out
> > there but it was a bear if you messed with the btrieve files.
>
> Tony, I tried to email you privately but of course your address is munged.
>
> In the years since you installed the old POS (or was it POS Plus?) their
> relationship with RealWorld Software fell apart; subsequent to that
> RealWorld itself fell apart. LOL Synchronics has since developed another
> point-of-sale product called CounterPoint. When I was on a trip in
> Minneapolis I saw it running on the PC's at the check-out of Surdyk's, a
> large wine & cheese shop.
Yep, I know about CounterPoint and even the aborted InTouch product too.
we were selling version 7 at the time I left the resellers employ.
As to RealWorld - I remember when Great Plains sucked it up, and then
finally Microsoft absorbed it.
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