[email protected] (Scott Ford) writes: > Yep I agree worked with some oriental programs, who slept under their > desks..these guys were unbelievably good programmers..the group I > worked with wasn't quite that bad, no in a negative sense.
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#16 Work long hours (Was Re: Pissing contest(s)) ???? for some topic drift ... I become acquainted with John Boyd the spring of 1983 and would sponsor his briefings at IBM. He would mention that during vietnam, he could claim that the sensors on the trial wouldn't work. That is possibly why is was assigned to command spook base. URL describing spook base, sensors on the trail, and even drones ... gone 404, but lives on at wayback machine: http://web.archive.org/web/20030212092342/http://home.att.net/~c.jeppeson/igloo_white.html Boyd biographies claim spook base was $2.5B windfall of for IBM ... possibly pushing $20B in today's dollars. Boyd would say that spook base had the largest air conditioned building in that part of the world. About that time, I was con'ed into joining Boeing as part of helping form Boeing Computer Services ... consolidating dataprocessing into separate business unit to better monetize the investment. I had imagined Renton was the largest IBM 360 mainframe datacenter in the world, something like $300M in mainframes. At one time the 360/65s were arriving faster than they could be installed ... there were pieces of 360/65s constantly staged in the hallways outside the machine room. -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
