The 16 of June 2011 IBM celebrated 100 years of being in business. Very few companies in the world have had that long a life. IBM's impact on civilization is endless. A person, any where in the world, and now in space has their life effected every day, many every minute of their life. The computer part of IBM has only been around for 65 years. No one can even guess what the next 100 years or even 10 years, what IBM and the computer industry will bring to civilization. There will be many great advancements and few other uses that will be regrettable. Can you think of anything electrical /mechanical, other than a electric pencil sharpener, that does not use a computer in it or is not, somewhere in its life been impacted by a computer.
The goal of this blog is to inform. There will items of history of the computer industry, thoughts and pontifications on the industry, COBOL and JAVA tips, new ideas, website you should visit, and answers to interesting questions. The advantage of being an Old Timer in this field is that you can criticize something and not worry about being fired. The worst that can happen is they will not read my blog any more.
Remember there is not much new in this industry that has not been available in some similar form for many years. Tape drives have been around for over 50 years. The first one's were mental tape weighing 50lbs for a reel of tape. Always remember that a new idea is just a repackaging of an old idea so that they can provide material to publish magazines or a have new salesman's selling point.
The latest is the Cloud. It is the old concept of time sharing combined with client/server methods.
Today's website of interest:
http://www.ibm.com/ibm100/us/en/films/wild_ducks.html
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