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Understood, and I mostly agree. My favourite story about IBM malpractices was how they upgraded one of their printers. The technician doing the upgrade ushered
by zabzonk 5y ago
Understood, and I mostly agree. My favourite story about IBM malpractices was how they upgraded one of their printers. The technician doing the upgrade ushered all client staff out of the machine room. He then moved a rubber band from one pulley onto another.
But on the other hand, they did produce some really good kit and software, which if you are a programmer is really what you want. And people like DEC were hardly adverse to doing similar stuff.
- kadoban 4y ago> He then moved a rubber band from one pulley onto another. Hah, that's a good one. > But on the other hand, they did produce some really good kit and software [...] Yeah, agreed (though really they did all of their best work well before my time, so I only know ~some of the history).