West Wing Wiki/Data Point

Nancy Wyatt finished sorting through the stack of facsimiles that had been received over night from the regional data centers and the overseas offices. While stepping through into the door into the Executive Suite he placed the FAX from Tehran on the top of the ones she thought Mr. Perot would want to see. She set the facsimiles in the appropriate In Box on a shelf near Mr. Perot's computer work station.

For a minute Nancy looked over the work station, trying to be sure that everything was in order. She noticed that the terminal connected to the mainframe was offline again. She re-initialized the connection routine and checked the ribbon of the Selectric that was built into the terminal. On the desk top next to the Datapoint computer was a magnetic storage diskette. She picked up the dick and was puzzled by what was written on the label: "Henry Perot" and "Rotc".

She heard Mr. Perot being greeted in the outer office pool met him at the door as he entered his office. "Good day, Mr. Perot."

Ross Perot paused and patted his pockets. He pulled a rumples set of printed pages out of his suit coat pocket and handed them to Nancy. "How are you today, Nancy?"

While trying to figure out what the papers were she replied automatically, "I'm just fine, thank you." It looked like the weekly report from the Interoffice Communications Committee. "Should I distribute this as usual?"

Perot headed towards his desk and replied, "Yes, please." He looked through the list of phone calls he had received over night. "Any important calls?"

Nancy replied, "No, not really, but there was a FAX marked "URGENT" fro the office in Iran." Perot stepped over to the computer work station and found the FAX. "Oh, and I found this disk, do you want me to file it?"

Perot frowned down at the FAX from Iran for a minute then looked up. "What disk?" He did not recognize the disk. "Where did you find it?"

"Right next to your computer...personal computer." Nancy still had trouble adjusting to the idea of a personal computer. She only had a vague idea of what Perot used it for. It seemed more like a toy or a status symbol. She imagined that was why he had insisted on having on display right behind his main office desk where visitors would be sure to see it.

Perot took the disk from Nancy and then strode back to the computer, "Oh, yes. Thank you, I'm still using this..."

Nancy watched Perot insert the disk into the disk drive and asked, "Do you need anything else?"

Perot glanced up and asked, "What?"

"Will there be anything else?"

"Oh, no. Thanks. Please give me a reminder before the department heads meeting."