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To: Dr. Sivana
IBM = India Business Machines

Last count, a large percentage of IBMers were Indian...and IBM is 1/4 the size it was in the 80's (employee-wise)...

11 posted on 04/26/2015 5:08:11 AM PDT by Dubh_Ghlase
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To: Dubh_Ghlase
IBM = India Business Machines

We, at Control Data Corp (CDC) in the late 1960s-mid70s, cockily called IBM the "Itty Bitty Machine Company". When the Computer Peripherals CPI) joint venture with NCR was formed in the early 1970s, we CDCers also mocked NCR as the retarded stepbrother. Little did we realize that the mainframe computer was the dinosaur in the market and the desktop was the wave of the future. Bye bye CDC and CPI in the mid 1980s while IBM and NCR are still chuggin' along. Craig Computer is still clinging the supercomputer niche, as far as I know.

29 posted on 04/26/2015 7:00:20 AM PDT by shove_it (RedWingNut)
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