Flashback to the pre-Internet days when the standard way of sending lots of data between sites is on reels of magnetic tape — but the company where this pilot fish works is looking for a better way.

“I was responsible for supporting the manufacturing inventory system, from which we generated the bi-weekly mailing to customers with our offerings,” fish says. “Tapes from keypunched data were used as the medium of supplying manufacturing instructions, and air-freighted to the plant in the midwest.

“The company was very technology oriented, so when an IT vendor introduced a way of transmitting reports and data over a telephone line, we went for a trial run.”

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