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Bob Evans, Who Helped I.B.M. Transform Data Processing, ( Architect of the IBM 360 Mainframe )
The New York Times ^
| September 8, 2004
| LAURIE J. FLYNN
Posted on 09/09/2004 2:50:47 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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One of the Giants of the early computer days....
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Talented guy.
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posted on
09/09/2004 2:54:51 PM PDT
by
IncPen
(Every Word From Kerry's Mouth is a Dishonorable Discharge)
To: IncPen
But no grits.... I can't live without grits
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posted on
09/09/2004 2:55:35 PM PDT
by
CanisRex
(Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil. --Lazarus Long)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
How many folks here old enough to remember punch cards ?
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
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posted on
09/09/2004 2:55:57 PM PDT
by
Defender2
(Defending Our Bill of Rights, Our Constitution, Our Country and Our Freedom!!!!)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Bob O. Evans, a computer scientist who in the 1960's led the development of a new class of mainframe computersWow, this is interesting. I thought all people did during the 60's was smoke dope and protest Vietnam. That is what the MSM told me. (sarcasm red and free)
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posted on
09/09/2004 2:56:29 PM PDT
by
USNBandit
(Florida military absentee voter number 537.)
To: Defender2
Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
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Mr. Evans was born in Grand Island, Neb., in 1927, grew up in Shelton, Neb., and earned an engineering degree from Iowa State University. He joined I.B.M. in 1951 as a junior engineer. In 1969 he was named president of the systems development division. He was named vice president for engineering, programming and technology in 1977 and retired from I.B.M. in 1984. This up-through-the-ranks success story by an ambitious, talented, native-born American would never happen today, for reason that are all too painfully obvious.
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posted on
09/09/2004 2:57:56 PM PDT
by
Euro-American Scum
(A poverty-stricken middle class must be a disarmed middle class)
To: Sam the Sham
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posted on
09/09/2004 2:58:39 PM PDT
by
Old Professer
(The enemy is among us; he is us; we know it, we dare not say it - someone will be offended.)
To: Sam the Sham
GGGGRRRRRHHHH, I remember punch cards--- frustrating, time consuming and cumbersome.
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posted on
09/09/2004 2:58:42 PM PDT
by
Kackikat
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Ah yes. The Mythical Man-Month. Great man.
Sympathy and prayers for his family. He will be missed.
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posted on
09/09/2004 2:59:22 PM PDT
by
Lexinom
To: Sam the Sham
How many folks here old enough to remember punch cards ?
I learned FORTRAN IV on the old IBM punch cards.
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posted on
09/09/2004 3:00:44 PM PDT
by
saluki_in_ohio
(Troubles come, but they go good with beer....)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
#7. I hate to say it, the thought did cross my mind.
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posted on
09/09/2004 3:02:11 PM PDT
by
Defender2
(Defending Our Bill of Rights, Our Constitution, Our Country and Our Freedom!!!!)
To: Sam the Sham
How many folks here old enough to remember punch cards ?
Like with an 082/083, 416/407, 650, etc? Those were the days (NOT).
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posted on
09/09/2004 3:02:15 PM PDT
by
pt17
To: Sam the Sham
I wonder if they'll bury him "face down and 9 edge forward"
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posted on
09/09/2004 3:02:58 PM PDT
by
Robe
(Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
To: Defender2
The guy dies right in the middle of the CBS/Guard memo scandal....
To: Sam the Sham
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posted on
09/09/2004 3:07:31 PM PDT
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
To: Sam the Sham
COBOL and some other program we had to learn in college used them, I think.....plus I used to be in charge of the teletype machine (tape).....I could patch those little holes into messages pretty good.
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posted on
09/09/2004 3:07:51 PM PDT
by
goodnesswins
(VICTORY...........brings peace.)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Yup. you and I are having similar thoughts on this one for sure. Was he eliminated for convenience's sake? We will never know.
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posted on
09/09/2004 3:08:28 PM PDT
by
Defender2
(Defending Our Bill of Rights, Our Constitution, Our Country and Our Freedom!!!!)
To: Sam the Sham
How many folks here old enough to remember punch cards ? 
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posted on
09/09/2004 3:09:30 PM PDT
by
Tijeras_Slim
(Patiently waiting for my official curmudgeon T-shirt.)
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