baccala%usna.arpa.usna.arpa@BRL.ARPA (Brent W Baccala) (11/27/86)
A friend of mine wants to start an employment agency using a micro as the primary means of information storage. What he wants is a data base manager for the data itself; supplemented by accounting and word-processing systems. Any recomendations for good hardware/software to support this? Since this is a start-up, public domain, shareware, and other low-cost products would be prefered. A similiar situation applies to the hardware. I couldn't help him much on the software end, except for some more-or-less sweeping generalizations as to what's out there. My hardware recomendations were: Epson for a printer (reliability), a hard disk (volume; at least 5MB, hopefully 10 to start with), something well-known (support and expandability; if this venture grows you don't want to be entering all the data by hand. On this line, does anyone know of ANY "fill-in-the-bubble-form" readers that can be hooked up to a micro?). Please reply directly; I don't normally read this list. Thanks. - BRENT W. BACCALA - Aerospace Engineering Department U.S. Naval Academy Annapolis, MD <decvax!brl-smoke!usna!baccala> <seismo!usna!baccala> <baccala@usna.arpa> "I do graphics work on an SGI Iris, fun work on a VAX 11/780, grunge work on an IBM XT"