David Boyes wrote:

>Well, this "light" thing worked out OK in the labs, so we kicked it
>upstairs to the Big Guy for product announcement. The customer tests
>with the "Let There Be Light" campaign seemed positive, so we told him
>to run with it...

Unfortunately that was day 1, but its source did not appear until day 4.

So there was a timing difference here and either the Big Guy upstairs was 
missing a few PTFs or "that Light" was from a different source and I 
prefer the latter.





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TCP/IP is old technology?  What about the bits and bytes it relies on - 
why can't IBM replace those with negatively and positively charged 
photons?  They'd be a lot faster!  Gee, I hope I'm hinting at some secret 
announcement  letter pending for the z/NT, which would naturally be 
followed by the z/XP, and then (skipping some more nightmares) eventually 
the z/7, right!?      %-}~

But then.. light does go waaaay back to the very beginning.  ;-)

Mike Walter
Hewitt Associates
The opinions expressed herein are mine alone, not my employer's.

And before we trod too far down this "old technology" path, thereby 
invoking the inestimable wrath of our 
intrepid moderator, I believe that David Boyes has already won the contest 

hands down with the post:
---<snip>---
Date:         Tue, 5 Aug 2008 13:58:16 -0400
From:         David Boyes <[email protected]>
Subject:      Re: programmer biographies (was a long time ago: Immediate
              instructions )

> Alan
> Altmark <[email protected]> wrote:
> -snip-
> > I'm sure *someone* will speak up and say, "Well *I* worked on a
> Babbage's
> > first difference engine.  Knew the man well.  He was a geek's geek."
> > Whoever speaks up, my hat's off to you.  You win!
> 
> It's more likely someone will have claimed to helped build Stonehenge,
or
> aligned the pyramids, or....

Well, this "light" thing worked out OK in the labs, so we kicked it
upstairs to the Big Guy for product announcement. The customer tests
with the "Let There Be Light" campaign seemed positive, so we told him
to run with it...

8-)
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> still stuck with 30 year old technology (CTC) 
Yeah, and we're still stuck with that 30 year old TCP/IP technology :)) 

"Mike MacIsaac" <[email protected]>   (845) 433-7061




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