This blog entry reads as though it was lifted from an IBM press release and the 100-Years video IBM released last year. Evangelist Barnes dutifully spouted the company lines, and Jason wrote 'em down.
IBM is a very good company, and its survival for a hundred years is a testament to a lot of good management. As such, it deserves more insightful coverage.
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Of course what Barnes says sounds like a press release.
Note also the question mark at the end of the title.
But patents are a bad metric. I would guess that IBM generally has better patents than other top patent applicants, though. Unless IBM does thing like patent automatically adding "www" and "com" to text that could be a domain name.
Note also the question mark at the end of the title.
But patents are a bad metric. I would guess that IBM generally has better patents than other top patent applicants, though. Unless IBM does thing like patent automatically adding "www" and "com" to text that could be a domain name.
I just wonder if it's running on OSX of one of the Propriety IBM Systems. 
Big Sheets is one of the more interesting things that Business can access but it's by no means the most exciting thing that IBM is involved in.
Col
Big Sheets is one of the more interesting things that Business can access but it's by no means the most exciting thing that IBM is involved in.
Col
that paid Benoit Mandelbrot (RIP) to do nothing more than think in his study, has my sentiments, and has the right approach to innovation.
I'm available to think in my study if anyone wants to retain this unique service ... otherwise, you will find me in the back 40 cursing at the mules in a nineteenth century Swedish dialect.
I'm available to think in my study if anyone wants to retain this unique service ... otherwise, you will find me in the back 40 cursing at the mules in a nineteenth century Swedish dialect.
I remember the days, if it wasn't an IBM built system, it was still called an "IBM clone". All long before HP or Dell, etc.
This 32-bit system was average at best & a shame that we followed the path of IBM. Actually at Telecom Oz, in the days when Telecom Oz was not a scum company, we had an IBM-clone, Fujitsu, & these were far more reliable than anything IBM had to offer. Just the same the NEC machine which ran 36-bit hardware never made mistakes, that ninth-bit being a check digit & an incredibly reliable OS & far more sensible to use...
I remember in the mid 1950's when IBM had window space on 5th Avenue in NYC displaying its large tape reel storage systems to everybody's amazement. The whole multi-window, many rowed display of devices probably didn't hold as much as one old floppy disk of the 1990's.
The first PC I used was an IBM that Farmers Insurance agents could lease. You loaded the OS from a exceedingly large floppy disk. There was a simple word processing program including a merge file for addresses that you printed on the dot matrix printer. It actually was a smart terminal/dumb terminal setup. For the second workwtation to operate the smart terminal had to be on. The insurance info was sent to and from a mainframe in LA, but the word processing could be done off-line, which was just as well. We're talking 1983-84 when 1200 Baud was hot! hot! hot!
I was sent round to the various offices to help the agents learn to use. No, I wasn't from IBM just the district manager's office. It's what got me interested in computers. Still on the low end of high tech, but then someone has to be.
The first PC I used was an IBM that Farmers Insurance agents could lease. You loaded the OS from a exceedingly large floppy disk. There was a simple word processing program including a merge file for addresses that you printed on the dot matrix printer. It actually was a smart terminal/dumb terminal setup. For the second workwtation to operate the smart terminal had to be on. The insurance info was sent to and from a mainframe in LA, but the word processing could be done off-line, which was just as well. We're talking 1983-84 when 1200 Baud was hot! hot! hot!
I was sent round to the various offices to help the agents learn to use. No, I wasn't from IBM just the district manager's office. It's what got me interested in computers. Still on the low end of high tech, but then someone has to be.
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