IBM

dave

I have a soft spot for IBM as the creator of the IBM PC, which in turn led to GW-BASIC and many hours as a kid tinkering. There was something very nice about the typeface and extended ASCII characters of the PC.

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PC DOS

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As soon as they left the synagogue, they went with James and John to the home of Simon and Andrew. Mark 1:29 NIV

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company

The Old New Thing

A snappy answer when asked about dressing casually at IBM (devblogs.microsoft.com) I noted in the past that Microsoft engineers had trouble fitting into the IBM corporate culture when on temporary assignment at IBM offices in Boca Raton, Florida. In particular, they struggled with so-called “security violations“. I noted that one such category of security violation was “wearing shorts to work.”
A dispute over the TAB key highlights a mismatch between Microsoft and IBM organizational structures (devblogs.microsoft.com) I’ve written in the past about the cultural mismatch between Microsoft and IBM during the collaboration on OS/2, with the Microsofties viewing their IBM colleagues as mired in pointless bureaucracy and the IBM folks viewing Microsofties as undisciplined hackers.

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