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>A marketing manager with assistants and a secretary? Oh how things have changed.

(Assuming that description is accurate) it really wasn't typical for the time. That said, compared to today, there were still a lot more secretaries and assistants floating around given the (mostly) lack of email/calendaring, web-based information of any kind, and general friction associated with just about everything. I sometimes half-joke that if I went back to my product manager job starting in 1986, I'd quit in a week out of complete frustration at the lack of tools and information to do my job.