Re: OMG, What a Monstrosity!

"Watson A.Name - \"Watt Sun, the Dark Remover\"" <NOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

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>"nospam" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> When you commissioned one of these machines you used to get a jar full
>of
>> white powder to put in the water system, they said it was a corrosion
>> inhibitor but we always reckoned it was the ashes of deceased IBM
>> employees.
>
>That strikes me as odd. Is it supposed to be a jab at IBM. or is it
>supposed to be an extreme example of their employees' devotion?

If you had worked for IBM in the days when mainframes took 300kW you would
understand (in the UK anyway, I expect it was the same elsewhere). Most
regarded it as a job for life, we were just speculating it continued beyond
the grave.


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