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by bitsavers 5mo ago
this was part of some research I did when i turned up the reference manual from mascor, ca. 1970, which is the missing link between IBM ACS and the ACS engineers that went to Amdahl. http://bitsavers.org/pdf/mascor it
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by bitsavers 6mo ago
if you mean you couldn't find them on bitsavers, look under ibm/370/CICS
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by bitsavers 6mo ago
There are packages available that screen scrape 3270 streams and reformat them to export as html.
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by bitsavers 1y ago
https://oldbytes.space/@bitsavers/114661628149581952
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Curtis Yarvin's Plot Against America(newyorker.com)
289 points by bitsavers 1y ago|424 comments
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by bitsavers 2y ago
bitsavers hasn't auto-redirected in years, but it is random where the search engines will pull from a mirror.
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by bitsavers 3y ago
Make documents and software available that no one else had. Some people like to fly under the Wikipedia self-promotion radar.
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by bitsavers 4y ago
"The company wants to reinvent community-based repositories of information, such as Quora or Wikipedia, using a chatbot to generate the entries instead of humans. " DO NOT WANT!
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by bitsavers 4y ago
"His tenacity has led to superhuman-like accomplishments" Was this written by ChatGPT? No human could possibly be that stupid.
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by bitsavers 4y ago
The headline reads "Why employees FIRED by Sundar Pichai" Why the editing?
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by bitsavers 4y ago
"some of the higher ups at Salesforce told me they were pretty ticked off about how the employees seemed to have declined in engagement and productivity. " I wonder, could it be that people are at their emotional wits end over wha
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by bitsavers 4y ago
"I think companies need to fire deadweight " I think companies, especially Google, should have thought about the implications of massive hiring associated with things like X, then shutting them down en mass creating a situation wh
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by bitsavers 4y ago
"it is a great excuse to lay off the low performers" It is a great excuse to get rid anyone who disagreed with corporate changes or mangage to anger anyone in the management chain. Most big companies just put you on 'special&
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by bitsavers 4y ago
EAS radio announcements go out in the Bay Area for flooding (at least they are supposed to) I know we were careful to do it for Santa Clara county at KFJC
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by bitsavers 4y ago
"The use of the sound is prohibited to prevent people becoming desensitized to something you should only hear in the most dire circumstances." and then the "protect the children" people created Amber Alerts, which have d
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by bitsavers 4y ago
He is known as "Woz" not "the Woz". Today, his wife manages autographs and there is a charge for them.
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by bitsavers 4y ago
Controlled by Google
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by bitsavers 4y ago
The actual source code is on the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/asteroids-src
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by bitsavers 4y ago
Having a dualopoly in the smartphone space is not helpful or healthy
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by bitsavers 4y ago
Sure, blame those nasty communists any time things appear in HN left of what is best for Fortune and the WSJ.
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by bitsavers 4y ago
It is long past time for people to consider that working for public companies might not be in their long-term personal best interest.
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by bitsavers 4y ago
"Sir Christopher Hohn A British hedge fund manager knighted by the late Queen Elizabeth II says that Google and its parent company, headquartered in the Bay Area, should lay off more people after axing more than 12,000 people." Ti
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by bitsavers 4y ago
deep relationships
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by bitsavers 4y ago
https://computerhistory.org/blog/apple-lisa-still-more-to-un...
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by bitsavers 4y ago
"Silicon Valley" was a documentary
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Apple Lisa Still More to Uncover(computerhistory.org)
1 points by bitsavers 4y ago|0 comments
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by bitsavers 4y ago
"He pleaded with staffers to remain motivated" I heard a few more details of how they had to create a department since they had never had a layoff before to make everyone's access disappear at the same time. People found out
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by bitsavers 4y ago
Bosses haven't seen any problems with laying off the workers that were under their thumbs for decades, replacing them with outsourcing half a world away. What changed?
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by bitsavers 4y ago
Do any of these companies consider the institutional knowledge being lost when you lay off someone who has been with them 16 years?
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Google Considers Staff Disposable(businessinsider.com)
4 points by bitsavers 4y ago|3 comments

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