The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well.
Howard Brazee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A bit off topic: I find your input to these threads in general to be > quite useful. They appear to take a fair amount of work - are they > part of your jobs, or is this just a style you are comfortable with? re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#33 Internal DASD Pathing i had done some amount of the semi-automated computer conferencing via email (copy list) mechanism on the internal network http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet in the late 70s and early 80s ... and got blaimed for something called "tandem memos" (there was even a nov81 datamation article about tandem memos). tandemo memos were somewhat spawned by various trip reports visiting Tandem after Jim left SJR. somewhat recent postings referencing Jim and his departure from SJR: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#1 "The Elements of Programming Style" http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#13 "The Elements of Programming Style" http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007d.html#17 Jim Gray Is Missing somewhat as an outcome of various investigations into the "tandem memo" phenomena ... there were decisions to deploy officially sanctioned corporate computer conferencing capability. there was also a researcher hired that sat in the back of my office for nine months and studied how i communicated; phone, face-to-face, email, instant messeging, etc. they had copies of my incoming and outgoing email and logs of all instant messages. The resulting report was also published as a stanford phd thesis (joint between ai and language) and the subject matter for some number of papers and books. some related posts mentioning computer mediated conferencing http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#cmc never got paid for it ... frequently closer to the opposite ... minor reference: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007e.html#48 time spent/day on a computer there were sometimes jokes in the mid-80s about various subject threads having gotten "wheeler'ized" ... i.e. when possibly 80-90% percent of the characters in some corporate/world wide discussion were found to originate from my keyboard. most consider that i have extremely mellowed since then ... and have been doing it for 30 yrs or so somewhat drifting back to the original topic ... misc. collected posts about getting to play in the disk engineering (bldg. 14) and disk product test (bldg. 15) labs. http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
