"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."
OK, so I have those genuine blue #IBM socks with the bee logo (as in eye-bee-M) designed by Paul Rand, given to me by an IBM sales rep last year.
They are new and have never been worn.
Not my style but if you are an IBM nerd or #design fan and want them they can be yours. DM me or share if you are hanging out in circles that may be interested.
Please note you will need to be based in the UK as I won't have the nerve to deal with customs and send them overseas.
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?
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.
IBM working on a Sunday: PixPirate is a remote access Trojan that mostly target customers of banks in Brazil. It mainly attacks the Brazilian payment service called Pix, the standard instant payment platform in Brazil. No IOC provided.
🔗 https://securityintelligence.com/posts/pixpirate-brazilian-financial-malware/
1984, January 24th., Steve Jobs presented the first Macintosh Computer. We are glad to share our MAC POP Art, in tribute, in this Fediverse, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of that milestone with You, today.
Since the #MS & #IBM#DOS wasn't much more than a terminal with local CPU, floppy/hard disk support, the operating system was a "pirated" clone of #CPM. Even when IBM teamed up with Microsoft to break copyrights of Digital Research & Gary Kildall's IP on CP/M, #MSDOS wasn't up-to-date since there was no GUI available. #portrait@art work made in #SVG with @inkscape