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On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 06:45:36 -0700 (PDT), Uncle Monster
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On Saturday, October 3, 2015 at 8:10:09 AM UTC-5, sms wrote:
On 10/2/2015 9:28 PM, rbowman wrote:
On 10/02/2015 08:35 PM, Don Y wrote:
IBM has a constancy. There is little fear that they are going to
"go away" and leave you "hanging".

Like they say, nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM. Or, these days,
Windows.


When I was in college the data center chose an Amdahl 470/V6 because it
would fit. The IBN equivalent required a chiller and would not fit in
the building. IBM went to the governor trying to stop the sale. Amdahl
had the machine in a truck, not far from the school, waiting for the
approval to go through.


I guess IBM was ****ed at Gene Amdahl for leaving and opening his own company. ^_^

[8~{} Uncle CPU Monster

From the Burroughs world, IBM meant "It's Better Manually"