Wow, a self-proclaimed Linux punk who is admitting there is something
to learn from the VM community! Woohoo! Life keeps getting better and
better.... :-)
Thanks Alex! :-)
Christine Brogan
From: "Alex deVries" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 08/30/2002
09:07 AM AST
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Subject: Re: OT (for the Linux folks): Original VM/370 sales presentation
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.)
>
