anne-ology wrote:
true.
I thoroughly enjoyed the way these massive machines were portrayed
in the movies -
filling an entire room, whirrin' with lights a-flashin' ;-)
I worked several years with large computers (CDC Cyber series).
One of my old professors
On 7/18/2015 9:25 PM, James E Lang wrote:
The big discussion of Linux over the past 24+ hours has me wondering: What
operating environment(s) do other members of this list use at home and at work?
What factors influence the choice?
I'm definitely in the minority of responders so far, as I
hello,
I spent nearly 30 years with IBM, looking after mainframe customers as a
systems engineer. I was around
at the time when Bill G. convinced IBM to go his way with regard to PCs.
I still don't quite understand WHY
our people let themselves get convinced - I suppose it was mostly a
matter
On 07/22/2015 07:26 PM, anne-ology wrote:
and going back further to the 1940-'50s,
IBM thought that there would not be any market for these machines
outside of financial scientific researchers ;-)
IBM was looking at the market potential at that specific point in time,
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Am 22.07.2015 um 21:26 schrieb anne-ology:
and going back further to the 1940-'50s, IBM thought that there would not
be any market for these machines outside of financial scientific
researchers ;-)
that is, why they don't make much money these
] Operating Environment Survey [Kubuntu
Linux]
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hello,
I spent nearly 30 years with IBM, looking after mainframe customers as a
systems engineer. I was around
at the time when Bill G. convinced IBM to go his way with regard to PCs. I
still don't quite understand WHY
our
On 07/22/2015 07:28 PM, anne-ology wrote:
I thoroughly enjoyed the way these massive machines were portrayed
in the movies -
filling an entire room, whirrin' with lights a-flashin'
I used to maintain that sort of computer.
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On 07/22/2015 04:38 PM, toki wrote:
Not even the science fiction of the fifties and sixties anticipated that
by the end of the twentieth century, computers would be as ubiquitous
as they were.
I have a Tricorder app for my Android phone. ;-)
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On Wed, 22 Jul 2015, toki wrote:
Not even the science fiction of the fifties and sixties anticipated that
by the end of the twentieth century, computers would be as ubiquitous
as they were.
In 1967 the Philco-Ford Corporation released a short film titled 1999
A.D. In it the inevitable
true.
I thoroughly enjoyed the way these massive machines were portrayed
in the movies -
filling an entire room, whirrin' with lights a-flashin' ;-)
From: toki toki.kant...@gmail.com
Date: Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 3:38 PM
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] [OT] Operating
true;
although prior to that - 1965 - at the NY World's Fair, the GE
exhibit was fantastic with it's future-look.
From: Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu
Date: Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 3:57 PM
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] [OT] Operating Environment Survey [Kubuntu
Linux]
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