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2015-08-13 Thread Jon Butler
Ask the Singapore stock exchange about Tandem "non-stop". ;-)) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

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2015-08-12 Thread Clark Morris
#x27;t Tandem non-stop. Clark Morris > >Sigh. > >ALH > > > > > > > >-Original Message- >From: William Smith >To: IBM-MAIN >Sent: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 17:48 >Subject: Some Trivia: Happy Birthday IBM PC - You're 34 Today! > > > &

Re: Some Trivia: Happy Birthday IBM PC - You're 34 Today!

2015-08-12 Thread Ed Finnell
This doesn't sound right. I was at the Interim Share in Phoenix in '81 in May and it was rolling out then. Several luminaries in attendance. When we landed it was 107 and got hotter every day! In a message dated 8/12/2015 11:48:25 A.M. Central Daylight Time, sfo...@sbcglobal.net writes:

Re: Some Trivia: Happy Birthday IBM PC - You're 34 Today!

2015-08-12 Thread Anne & Lynn Wheeler
sfo...@sbcglobal.net (William Smith) writes: > Happy Birthday, IBM Personal Computer, August 12, 1981, the > announcement date for the original from IBM Boca Raton, Florida, > birthplace of PC DOS and OS/2. there was IBM project in silicon valley to do software for the IBM/PC ... with constant che

Re: Some Trivia: Happy Birthday IBM PC - You're 34 Today!

2015-08-12 Thread John McKown
On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Aled Hughes < 0050619ca8df-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > I recall a presentation by IBM Executives all those years back about the > 'New Era of Computing' (or something corny like that). One presenter > mentioned that there were other PCs around, but

Re: Some Trivia: Happy Birthday IBM PC - You're 34 Today!

2015-08-12 Thread Aled Hughes
orld still haven't worked out how to upgrade the OS without a restart Sigh. ALH -Original Message- From: William Smith To: IBM-MAIN Sent: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 17:48 Subject: Some Trivia: Happy Birthday IBM PC - You're 34 Today! Happy Birthday, IBM Personal Computer,

Some Trivia: Happy Birthday IBM PC - You're 34 Today!

2015-08-12 Thread William Smith
Happy Birthday, IBM Personal Computer, August 12, 1981, the announcement date for the original from IBM Boca Raton, Florida, birthplace of PC DOS and OS/2. August 12 is also the birthday for MGM's release of "The Wizard of OZ" (1939) and Edison's first phonograph in 1877 ("Mary had a little lam