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inexplicably removed from youtube, this has just been recovered with wbm:

ibm hires kate mulgrew/captain janeway in 1994 to promote OS/2 Warp 3 after patrick stewart shits the bed on a paid appearance

it's painful.

#Lenovo #ThinkPad #IBM
Since its debut in 1992 by IBM, ThinkPad PCs have been a symbol of business computing. I still have an IBM Thinkpad 380ED from 1997. It's 2.5" thick, weighs 7.5#, and cost $3100. It has the little red eraser TrackPoint in the middle of the keyboard.

Meet the Reddit community reviving ancient Lenovo ThinkPads

"Meet the Reddit community proving that you don't need the latest and greatest for daily computing needs."
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XDA · Meet the Reddit community reviving ancient Lenovo ThinkPadsMeet the Reddit community proving that you don't need the latest and greatest for daily computing needs.

The #Intel 286 was an odd one. It had a 24-bit addressing mode (improved from the 8086/8088's 20-bit addressing) with protected virtual memory, so that was cool. But using this mode was a one-way trip: the only way to get back to the 8086/8088 “real” mode was to reboot!

But the #IBM engineers designing the PC/AT had other plans…

I have a large collection of #electronic and #computer #music #vinyl #records. I had a radio show on FM on the subject for about a decade. So it is always exciting to find something I don't have, especially early stuff. Found this 10" boxed "Music from Mathematics" from 1960, bell labs. Much more rare than 1962 Decca 12". Never seen it before. Found in a local shop, of all places, hiding inside a vinyl carry case.
#belllabs #IBM #retrocomputing #computerassisted

In the late '70s & early '80s there were a lot of ppl saying that #computers were useless toys. And they were mostly right at the time. #Communication was and is the no1 killer app for computers (no, not #games). But that didn't fully arrive until 1997 for most ppl, 20 years later. Also consider that when capable #smartphones came around in 2007, people stopped using computers (now, 90% of overall usage is on #phones).

IBM launches Power11, vague rumblings about new Raptor workstations while IBM continues to not care about Power workstations

Ah, Power. The architecture that has so much going for it, and despite concerted efforts from very dedicated people, IBM seems to be hellbent on preventing anyone from expanding POWER beyond exp

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www.osnews.comIBM launches Power11, vague rumblings about new Raptor workstations while IBM continues to not care about Power workstations – OSnews