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Showerthought: The old filing cabinet at my uncle's shop taught me more than any software
I stopped by my uncle's machine shop in Detroit last weekend and noticed he still uses a beat up green filing cabinet for all his purchase orders. Everything is handwritten, dated, and filed by vendor name. It made me think about how we switched to QuickBooks about 8 years ago at my warehouse and I bet I couldn't find a single invoice from 2016 if my life depended on it. His system is slow but that thing has records going back to the 80s with no data corruption. Has anyone else seen an old school method hold up better than the digital version over time?
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daniel5524d ago
Slow but that thing has records going back to the 80s" wait what no corruption? That's honestly wild.
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taylor_flores4d ago
Not having any corruption with records that old is pretty rare for most countries. But I'm curious about what exactly counts as "no corruption" here. Like does that mean no one got caught, or that there's literally zero documented cases in their history? Because those are two very different things, especially in places where records go back before modern oversight.
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