Posted by Mike on Saturday, May 28, 2011
Tom West was project manager whose early work developing small business computers for Data General Corp. made him into a legend of the computer industry.
As depicted in the Tracy Kidder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1981 book “The Soul of a New Machine,” Mr. West drove his team of pocket-protected nerds through highly caffeinated 90-hour weeks in the late 1970s to develop a miniaturized descendant of the mainframe computer that saved the company.
Mr. West, who died May 19 at age 71, could be abrasive and imperious, but he spurred his team with slogans like, “Not everything worth doing is worth doing well.” He compared tech projects to pinball, where the prize for winning is another game—a new and more challenging project.
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Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Monday, May 2, 2011
I said a couple of weeks ago that I have been working with iTech-Ed Associate Darren Pritchard at a site that was fairly new to SharePoint 2007. Darren has written some beginner’s guides for them and we thought other sites new to SharePoint might benefit from the information.
Here are Darren’s instructions for installing a new SharePoint solution.
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Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Sunday, April 24, 2011
I want to know what’s going on on my network – what do I do? Well this seemingly simple question has a complicated answer, which is historical and all to do with the separate worlds of the mainframes and everyone else coming together to give us our current complicated environment. Just to summarize, mainframes used SNA and VTAM to communicate and everyone else used TCP/IP. Sometime in the 1990s, all this came together. In addition, we now have people on iPads and smartphones using our networks – in fact, we can have people on iPads and smartphones controlling our networks!
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Posted by Mike on Friday, April 22, 2011
The MainframeCOBOL website will be taking a break from Friday, April 22 through Sunday, May 1, 2011, while our webmaster takes a much-needed vacation.
We’ll be back refreshed, renewed, and ready on Monday, May 2. See you then!
Posted by Mike on Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Ken Olsen, a pioneer of digital technology, died Sunday. Olsen, 84, co-founded and headed Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC), which developed one of the first commercial computers and helped usher in a new, post-mainframe world.
In a letter to Gordon College, which announced his death and where Olsen had been a trustee, Microsoft co-founder and Chairman Bill Gates said Olsen was “a major influence in my life, and his influence is still important at Microsoft through all the engineers who trained at Digital.”
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Posted by Mike on Friday, January 14, 2011
From Spacewar! to the iconic Apple II computer, from long-forgotten punch card systems to massive tape drives—the recently renovated Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California has it all. It protects all the amazing artifacts from computing’s history.
Read more about this at Gizmodo…
Posted by Mike on Friday, December 31, 2010
Posted by Mike on Saturday, December 25, 2010
The staff of the MainframeCOBOL.info website would like to wish each of you…
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Please read Luke 2 from the Holy Bible for the CHRISTmas story.
