I was working for a service bureau. We sold time on CDC computers and I was visiting with a prospective client with the Navy. They were using a computer at another site since they didn't have one of their own. I was talking about while we didn't have a guaranteed turn around time for jobs (time between reading the cards in and getting paper back out) being usually in the range of 1 hours for routine priority works. Quicker if you paid a bit more. He laughed at this. I said that was better than average for our industry, is that a problem? He explained that his turn around time averaged about a month.
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I was working for a service bureau. We sold time on CDC computers and I was visiting with a prospective client with the Navy. They were using a computer at another site since they didn't have one of their own. I was talking about while we didn't have a guaranteed turn around time for jobs (time between reading the cards in and getting paper back out) being usually in the range of 1 hours for routine priority works. Quicker if you paid a bit more. He laughed at this. I said that was better than average for our industry, is that a problem? He explained that his turn around time averaged about a month.