Do any #IBM employees follow me here on Fedi? I will do pretty much anything - anything... - to be able to use and possibly review the new IBM Power S1012 in its tower configuration. I even have two POWER9 machines to compare it to!
Dotarło do mnie takie zaproszenie, więc się od razu dzielę.
Spotkanie autorskie z Edwinem Blackiem
8 maja (środa) o godzinie 18:00 odbędzie się w Łodzi spotkanie autorskie z Edwinem Blackiem, autorem książki „IBM i Holocaust. Strategiczny sojusz hitlerowskich Niemiec z amerykańską korporacją”
Miejsce: Centrum Dialogu im. Marka Edelmana w Łodzi, ul. Wojska Polskiego 83
@bladews When I joined IBM in 1981 it was still willing to bet $millions on "serial, back-to-back impossibilities" in the form of internal mega-projects which often came to nothing.
Can anyone have any idea about what this #mysterious#IBM#hardware can be ? I can't remember precisely how I got it, I THINK it was from a dumpster or found in a pile of some "electronic garbage". I have absolutely NO IDEA what this can be , I have a SUSPECT but I could be totally wrong, I THINK they MAY be part of an IBM 5100 but I can't be sure, if anyone knows what they could be I'd be interested to know !
#TodayInHistory 1964 – #IBM announces the System/360. It was extremely successful, allowing customers to purchase a smaller system they could expand, if their needs grew, without reprogramming application software. It influenced computer design for years to come. Many consider it one of history's most successful computers.
@dirkdierickx@failedLyndonLaRouchite Yeah, I walked in the machine room one day and there was a CE in there. "Ohai!", I said, and he replied "Your machine just called and told us he needs a disk drive replaced, so here I am."
「 System/360’s software was also ambitious. Variations of one operating system, OS/360, were supposed to run on all the models.
But OS/360 was hard to write -- especially the complex “multiprogramming” versions that ran several programs at once -- and it was late. Three special OSs had to be created for the smallest machines 」
Here's an IBM s/360 at the Computer History Museum, from some months ago; it was so very fun to see how data storage has evolved!
ok ok, it's true that my lab no longer has a LTO drive of any generation, but I still want one… LTO5 should be sufficient to backup a couple hundred terabytes right?
Sorting through the stuff from my closet, realizing I have this dress code covered, but I will never wear it again. (although the shirts, admittedly, are from the early 2000's). #ibm#dresscode#advertisement#fashion#clothing
I don’t usually post work stuff but #ibm#xforce doesnt have a Mastodon presence so once in a while I have to post the important stuff.
Congratulations to @chompie1337 who scored a win in the Windows 11 LPE category! Her exploit circumvents the latest Virtualization Based Security mitigations. She becomes the first solo female competitor to score a full win at #Pwn2Own, the world’s most prestigious hacking competition.
(Only links I have are to Xitter and I won’t post those)
Anyone here interested in pensions, poverty, fairness? Multiple choices are ok.
A short thread. Part of the pensions world (the best) is the old-style "defined benefit" schemes. They mostly closed to new employees years ago.
Suddenly, because interest rates, those old schemes are swimming in money.
Good news, here's an FT piece saying some big US companies are reopening their DB schemes.
1/3 #pensions#poverty#IBM
Could a US pensions revolution be on the cards? - https://on.ft.com/3Taoc4H
"Once a customer builds an application or application suite on mainframe then it’s difficult or expensive to move to another platform so it’s sticky and the monthly payments keep coming in to IBM. If a new function is needed, the easiest place to do it is likely on the mainframe with everything else."
I wonder, why does #VGA use synchronization pulses, and not a pair of sawtooth signals for controlling #CRT deflection directly? Then the display could change modes faster (nothing to resynchronize), and a non-sawtooth signal could be used to implement a vector display if desired.
There must be a reason why #IBM didn't do this. Anyone know why?
Well, VGA has little to do with NTSC. Its RGB component video signal is completely different, and way too fast, so it's not like VGA needed to use TV-style sync for compatibility reasons.
And CRT displays do generate sawtooth signals internally, so that could have been moved into the VGA controller instead. Would've made it possible to display both raster and vector graphics at the same time.
Maybe they didn't think it'd be worth the extra R&D cost?
@argv_minus_one@engarneering If you did that, the sawatooths would be analog, so any noise etc on the signal would have a worse effect on the display; the display would still have to amplify/modify the sawtooth to drive it's own particular CRT, and that depends on loads of other things in the CRT.
So IBM made a decision that managers must be in the office 3 days a week, or else (they're fired). Which is hilarious given that people don't work for companies they work for managers. Good leaders will just bounce and over a year or two will take the good people from their team with them.
But of course the EY (or whoever) consultants knew this and is probably where they're doing this in the first place because it's cheaper than layoffs.
