In 1993 or 1994 or so I was working as the Branch Manager of Alfa Laval. We had a brilliant infotech manager called Mahesh Deshmukh who was looking for an office which could be the test case in his computerisation plans for the company. Wipro the contractor was in Bangalore and given my interest he chose my branch. The company planned to set up a local area network system with about 5 or 6 desktop units and a gentleman with a similar name ā Vashishta ā was the Manager from Wipro. As they executed the job, I discussed with him that the LAN would be of no use if we still had to call up/ go meet colleagues when all we had to do was leave a message. Could he have a system wherein we could send messages to each other and when the person logged in, it would pop up. They did it and we soon had a very effective communication system where we didnāt forget messages and even instructions/ feedback were typed off and sent instantly. This effort gave me immense satisfaction at a personal lev...
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