Re: Marked up
"And how do you keep Sgt Jones from buying his batallion's paperclips and toilet paper from his brother-in-law who marks supplies for the government up 500%?"
All supplies to be purchased at no more than manufacturer's list price.
"a Z80 CPU, a few hundred K of memory"
The Z80 can only address 64K so unless you have some clever bank-switching H/W it would have been limiting.
But the basic issue here is that DoD desk wallahs' desks aren't going to be suddenly deployed to the field. In fact no rank is quoted in the article so it seems likely he was a civilian.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
