Datapoint Marketing No. 47 July 1982 presentations were overwhelmingly Roadshow Stresses positive. The newer sales and systems personnel said that they had never Datapoint's Strengths received the overall strategy of Datapoint as well as they had during this presentation. The Product Marketing roadshow detailed the concepts of the ARC™ Handouts included a Distributed recently travelled to 11 cities (Attached Resource Computer®) Data Processing Sales Reference nationwide, where 800 salespeople, local network and presented the Guide which is packed with 250 + SE's and CSR's received updated overall Datapoint product strategy pages of DDP goodies. You can order information about the company. and a conceptual overview. a copy from Software Services by Gerry Cullen, Vice President of During the afternoon sessions, asking for model code 61379. A new Marketing, along with Bill Davis, Cullen met with various customers, Case History collection (M/C 61371) Director of Product Marketing, and Rep's, OEM's and prospects to which contains over 25 descriptions of two teams of Product Marketing discuss Datapoint products, strategy installations and applications was also managers visited Boston, New York, and outlook. distributed. Other handouts included Atlanta, Washington D.C., Houston, The afternoon sessions with a new configuration guide, the ACU Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Datapoint staffers included Benchmark Report on the 8600 and Cleveland. On the teams were Buck presentations on product strengths the third party software briefs. 0 Buchanan, Ted Rohling, Jim and thrust, software capabilities, Whitehouse, Terry McDaneld and future product schedules, Local Area Bill Davis John Tysall. Networking, third party software, the Ext. 7151 Gerry Cullen presented the "State 1550 and the recently announced new of the Company" message, closing prices. with a reassuring, "It's O.K." He also The comments received about the Datapoint Soars To #545 On Fortune 1000 Datapoint is the 545th largest publicly owned industrial firm in the United States, according to Fortune Magazine's listing of the Fortune 1000. That's a 70-step increase from last year's ranking of 615, and a 276-position jump from our first listing in 1978. The ranking is based on our FY'81 revenues which were concluded last July 31. Datapoint made its premiere in the Fortune 1000 at the end of FY'78, the company's tenth year in business. We were ranked at 821. In FY'79, the ranking rose to 699, followed in FY'80 at 615. Revenue for FY'81 was $396.2 million, up from $318.8 million in FY'80. Reve.nue in FY'78 was $162.3 Gerry Cullen addresses a Chicago audience. million. 0 DatapointMarketing News Copyright © 1982 by Datapoint Corporation. A URights Reserved. For Internal Use Only Seybold Publications: Datapoint is a Contender in WP Seybold Publications recently charts, and ultimately to integrate published a report on Datapoint's ISX™ (Information Switching word processing system, IEOS. The Exchange™) with the RMS™ ARC™ 17-page report provides an in-depth network to connect geographically look at our word processing and dispersed data processing systems associated products, and tells us much together. about how our WP is perceived by Also, Seybold praises our AIMTM users. (Associative Index Method™) Seybold spent several days in San retrieval method as a flexible way to Antonio in order to test our word get to the information a user needs. processing first-hand. They draw The drawbacks they cite are the several conclusions: some very features that we do not currently positive, some that indicate that we offer: hyphenation, spelling-checker, have some work to do on our lEO automatic footnoting, arithmetic software products. during editing, automatic index and The principal highpoint they table of contents generation and companies and consultants like mention is our exceptional ability to column manipulation. Seybold are recognizing us as a truly integrate our products together into Although Seybold saw room for viable contender in the office an entire system. This includes improvement, they were pleased with marketplace. interfacing word processing files with what Datapoint has released so far; Free copies of the Seybold report Multiplan financial modeling files and they simply feel we shouldn't stop are available from Bonnie Cushman, with EMS™ (Electronic Message development yet. Ext. 7059. Because of limited System™). Though we may have a ways to go quanitity, maximum order per They mention our ability to enhance with our word processing software, salesperson is five copies. 0 information with CBG (Color we are steadily gaining ground in the Scott Cannon Business Graphics) pictures and WP market. More and more Ext. 7151 Sort Benchmarks for the 5 ~ Inch Disk Here are some timings for sorts on the 9301 disk system done by Sort Time in Seconds Marketing Technical Support. We used an 8600 processor (the RECORDS TEST 1 TEST 2 TEST 3 only one for the 9301) with 128K of memory and RMS version 1.8. We 5000 162 168 164 had a total of 60 megabytes of disk 164 170 167 (one 9301 and one 9302 extenstion 10000 SS#Name 341 drive) in a stand-alone configuration. Name 347 Our input file varied in size from 5,000 to 20,000 records. Each record was 15000 SS# 547 571 559 573 300 bytes long (uncompressed). Name 557 582 570 583 Two sorts were performed using keys of differing lengths. The first 20000 SS# key was the social security number Name field (nine digits) and the second key was a name field (thirty characters). while the output file was on the other be anticipated. A good rule of thumb Timings for the sort on social security disk. for file placement is to put the input are listed first followed by the name TEST 3 was almost like TEST 2 and output files on the same disk! sort. All times shown are in seconds. with the input file and output files on Marketing Technical Support is TEST 1 was performed with the in­ different disks, but the work file was running the same tests on other put file, the output file, and the work moved to the same disk as the output configurations and will publish the file all on different disks. As the file. results as soon as they are available. 0 timings show, this is optimum for the Note that key length makes very sort. little difference in the length of time TEST 2 used only two disks and had required to sort the file. Also, file Kris Linebaugh the input file and work file on one disk placement is not as critical as might Ext. 7151 Datapoint Marketing News 2 For Internal Use Only Are You Suffering from Terminall Styl. Keyboard From Gen.ra1 From Universal From Univer.al From General 029 P'rot:e8.or Shipped A. Purpos. to to General to General Purpose to Keypunch Stondard Univer.. 1 Purpo.. Purpo.. General Pur· Style the Keyboard/Keycap (Device) Keyboard Without 3270 With 3270 po., With 3270 3600 Universal Nt A N/A N/A N/A 3608 820018211 Universal N/A 0592 N/A N/A N/A 8220 General Purpose NtA N/A N/A 5273 N/A Syndrome? 155X General Purpose 0514 0512 9033 0550 N/A 18XX General Purpose 0514 0512 9033 0550 N/A 38XX General Purpose 0514 0512 9033 0550 N/A There is widespread confusion 86XX General Purpose N/A N/A N/A 5273 N/A about what keyboard comes standard 66XX Universal N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A with which device, and which keyboard options are applicable. The following describes the keyboards associated with all products. UNIVERSAL KEYBOARD-data processing oriented; the standard keyboard shipped on all devices (i .e. 5500,6600,3600,8200, etc.), until the advent of word processing, 3270 and electronic mail. The universal keyboard will continue to be the standard on small-screen processors (12 X 80). GENERAL PURPOSE-(formerly known as multipurpose keyboard) not only is suitable and functional for data processing, but also facilitates word processing. This keyboard comes standard on 1500, 1550, 1800, 3800, 8600 and 8220. 3270 KEYCAPS-3270 keycaps are an option for the general purpose keyboard which offers selected keycaps with etchings on the front side of the keys, which represent functions associated with 327X model II display stations. Please reference the matrix provided for Keyboard/Keycap specifics. 0 Steve Parrish Ext. 7151 the fact that the computer in the Dutch Hospital Installs Datapoint ARC administration department was out of date. For Total Hospital Automation Datapoint's ARC was chosen because its software quality and The hospital"Diakonessenhuis contact and attention, which is the modular, redundant architecture Refaja" in Dordrecht, Holland will most important work of hospital make it the only system available in install an ARC network for medical personnel," Dr. D. J. van Leeuwen, Holland to meet all automation and administrative automation. medical director of Refaja, explained. demands cost effectively. In addition, Refaja is the thirty-third Dutch Refaja Hospital has felt the urgent Datapoint Netherlands has intensive hospital that has purchased Datapoint need to automate several disciplines cooperation with the SIZGK (a group equipment, which is installed in 16% because up-to-date information is of hospitals who are coordinating of health care facilities in Holland. essential for the hospital's operations, their information processing). A number of reasons led to the especially in the clinical chemical The Refaja ARC will include 32 Refaja's decision to buy Datapoint laboratory, polyclinics, registration of workstations, 180 million characters equipment. admissions and administrative of storage, and 14 printers. 0 "Because of all the administrative services. A new computer was work the personnel have to do, there's required because of the growing Gerda de Graff hardly any time left for human number of patients in the hospital and Datapoint Nederland BV Datapoint Marketing News 3 For Internal Use Only Join the Foreign Legion Yes, it's true.