On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 14:16 -0400, (IBM Mainframe Discussion List) wrote: > I attended a technical session at a regional CMG in early 1994 done > by an IBM San Jose disk engineer named Bill Donovan, who had been in > on the development of every IBM disk product since day zero
I remember his name was Bill Donnelly? He did a video once, extolling the virtues of IBM technology whilst sinking ball after ball at a pool table, doing a fair imitation of Steve Mizerak's beer commercial. He occasionally gave executive briefings, and I saw him once at a GUIDE or SHARE meeting. A sharp dude who knew his stuff. But he also categorically stated that what the StorageTek guys were trying to do with Iceberg was impossible. Paraphrasing: "Believe me, there are big problems with that technology, *hard* problems, that they can't overcome." I believed him. And then STK shipped the 'berg. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
