[SATLUG] IBM Linux Commercial

[herb cee]

Todd W. Bucy wrote:
> John Chalinder wrote:
>   
>> Wow! Just watched the ad. It sounds like a commercial for Ubuntu, with
>> its reference to community and sharing. It doesn't sound like IBM;
>> wonder what they were thinking when they made it...
>>     
> the future...thats what they were thinking about
>
> Todd
>   
I think it sounds very like IBM in the 50s. I went to work for IBM as a 
Customer Engineer (punched card machine repairman) in 1956 and found 
them to be the most humane Co. with regard to their employees and 
dedicated to customer service. I left IBM for higher pay, I have often 
wondered what my career would have been like had I stayed. Ohhhh well.

They introduced the first commercial computer, 705, in 1957 at Norton 
AFB  in 1958 where I worked. The installation filled a room 30x35' and 
required 35 tons of A/C to cool it.  The CPU had 10k magnetic bead 
memory. data entry was via typewriter and punch cards. Output was to 
Tape drives 20 online 8 off line and three 150 line per minute printers 
plus punch card output. It operated 24/7 processing material inventory.
'Old' herb