Wow, this is insanely cool. It isn't often I say that about a sales presentation that's older than I am.
The Linux community can learn a lot from you guys. I just hope that we're anything like this in twenty years. Now let me see if I can find a Gloria Gaynor 8 track and my rollerskates.... - Alex David Boyes wrote: >One of the things that surfaced at the 30th anniversary party for VM >in San Francisco was a miraculously intact copy of the original 1972 >VM/370 sales presentation intended for explaining what benefit VM/370 >had for customers. The presentation (a collection of 35mm slides and a >presentation script in the original IBM cardboard storage box) was >located in the papers of a recently deceased faculty member at Marist >College, and was almost thrown out as trash. > >By the grace of Harry and Martha at Marist College, the IBM Archives, >and Scott Courtney's shiny new slide scanner, we've scanned the >presentation slides, the presentation script, and a copy of the blue >announcement letter and made them available on our WWW site. The URL >is: > >http://sinenomine.net/photo.php?dir=photos/vm370&prefix=vm370 > >It's interesting in that pretty much everything in this presentation >is still true and accurate about VM. Not bad for turning 30, hmm? > >Enjoy! > >-- db > >David Boyes >Sine Nomine Associates > >(BTW, if you like the way the presentation images are displayed, this >is a tool that Scott wrote and works for general collections of images >and captions. It's nifty, open source and available from him for >download. Joe Bob sez check it out.) >
