into the 21st century

We're still in the process of bringing the office technology level past year 2000. We've tossed the Win-98 PCs. We've replaced the copier which left large marks on every copy. The copier replacement is also a fax machine so we've tossed the ancient fax (which, frankly, was working fine). The company was operating with a single email address (uco@ucocorp.com). We still are monitoring that but we've each got our own address now, keith@industrialrev.com, steve@industrialrev.com, kathy@industrialrev.com, etc. We're using MI8 to handle our Exchange server issues. We're backing up our crucial data every night to connected.com. We've even replaced the old fluorescent bulbs in the office area with full spectrum bulbs. Normally I would have guessed that "full spectrum" meant "higher price for the same light." However, we had two fixtures in the same room with the different bulbs. The old one was intensely yellow. The new one was a rich white. It added a whole new glow the offices!

There are a couple of more challenging situations. The PC which runs the CNC (computer numerical control) milling center is incredibly old, but it's got software on it that we can't easily move to another computer. The same thing goes for the decrepit PC in the shipping area. Those will require more careful attention.

We've also made a good start of getting the manufacturing out of the 1950's. We may already be up to the early 1960's!