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I’ve had many high tech jobs in my career, but I think my favorite was when I was a failure analysis technician at IBM. Actually, it didn’t matter if you were a janitor or a research scientist, there was a certain prestige that came with working for Big Blue, and that prestige was well deserved.
International Business Machines was THE technology company back in the 60s 70s and 80s. IBM created and sold the systems that ran governments and corporations. Its stock was considered a precious commodity, its products were coveted, and its services was the absolute best industry had to offer. You paid dearly for IBM products, but you got what you paid for. And that led to the saying, “No one ever got fired for buying IBM.”
The thing about IBM with battery such as IBM ThinkPad T40 Battery , IBM ThinkPad T41 Battery , IBM ThinkPad T42 Battery , IBM ThinkPad T43 Battery , IBM ThinkPad R50 Battery , IBM ThinkPad R51 Battery , IBM FRU 08K8193 Battery , IBM 92P1060 Battery , IBM 08K8214 Battery , IBM 08K8195 Battery wasn’t so much its products and services as it was its people. At one time IBM employed the highest number of PhDs of any company outside of Los Alamos, and they weren’t just trying to figure out how to write a better program, though there was plenty of that.
IBM’s brain trust, the highest concentration resided at Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, were free to pursue just about anything they wanted. They could tackle world hunger, building space stations, or the sex habits of Blind Mole Rats.
It wasn’t because IBM was so magnanimous in its reward of intelligence. What Big Blue figured was that a train of thought pulls behind it a long list of ideas, and those ideas could be profitable. So the brainy folks got to play and IBM’s R&D warehouse filled with stuff that was years, sometimes decades ahead of current technology, and more often than not, that technology never made it to production or consumers. At least not through IBM.
I’m writing this article on an excellent example of how far ahead IBM’s R&D technology was.
In the 1984-85 timeframe I was working as an application developer in IBM’s Bethesda facility. I was working on a PC version of DisplayWrite, IBM’s word processor that originated on mainframes. Our PCs had just gotten upgraded and we had under our desks the blisteringly fast 6MHz x286 processor PCs, hot off the presses.
We had a visit from some guy from Watson Research Center. In his briefcase was a computer unlike any other in existence at the time. It was a tablet with a monochrome backlit LCD display complete with onscreen keyboard. The guy wanted us to load DisplayWrite on it.