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IBM (help settle an argument)

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DontEatCrisps · 20/07/2023 19:59

Without looking it up, do you know what IBM stands for?

Yabu- I know
Yanbu- I don’t know.

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clary · 20/07/2023 23:10

Yes I know bc it was in a novel I read once.

EBearhug · 20/07/2023 23:09

Ah, I remember AS400. I also did an OS390 course once, too, though I had no interest in working on mainframes.

This is about the time that someone even older than me pipes up with, "VAX was the best."

HJ40 · 20/07/2023 23:01

Yes, I worked their briefly. At a time when they were withdrawing their short lived black desktop computers and screens from the market because they just couldn't get enough consumer demand. Everyone still wanted the 80s greige colour. How times change...

HelpMeGetThrough · 20/07/2023 22:55

Have known forever what it means. Have owned some of their kit and also worked on their bigger kit (System/36 and AS/400).

Here's another along the IBM theme..... ICL

EBearhug · 20/07/2023 22:45

Yes, and I knew it even before I became a Unix sys admin for a million years.

MabelFurball · 20/07/2023 22:40

Idiots Become Managers.

mrwalkensir · 20/07/2023 22:32

Chocolatehelps - also Dalek headquarters...

ChocolateHelps · 20/07/2023 22:24

Yes. Used to be a big head office near Portsmouth

CantFindTheBeat · 20/07/2023 21:08

DontEatCrisps · 20/07/2023 19:59

Without looking it up, do you know what IBM stands for?

Yabu- I know
Yanbu- I don’t know.

Yes. I'm long term technology industry,

DyslexicPoster · 20/07/2023 21:01

aconcernedrelative · 20/07/2023 20:55

In my IT days it was either "I Breed Mediocrity" or "I've Been Moved"!

I've been mugged surely?
Imbeciles behind machines? But I have never worked with such highly intelligent people. Some of my colleagues blew my mind

aconcernedrelative · 20/07/2023 20:55

In my IT days it was either "I Breed Mediocrity" or "I've Been Moved"!

Wowzel · 20/07/2023 20:55

Yes, but only because my dad worked there for 30+ years.

I have loads of fond memories of IBM.

Christmas Grotto
Christmas teenage disco
Take your child to work day
Office open day
Visit to the factory

BeyondMyWits · 20/07/2023 20:51

Irritating bloody machines... as they were known in our IT department.

WaspLady · 20/07/2023 20:51

I be mad..It’s big now..itchy bum medicine?

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 20/07/2023 20:49

Yes
Never worked for them or their competitors

DragonflyLady · 20/07/2023 20:48

I used to work for a company that was closely associated with IBM and I had no idea what it meant!!

Neighbours87 · 20/07/2023 20:47

Yes international business machines. It’s a common pub quiz question

LatteLady · 20/07/2023 20:47

Yes, because I worked for various senior staff members including the Chief Exec in the UK, for a number of years.

Yogibearspicnic · 20/07/2023 20:46

TotheletterofthelawTHELETTER · 20/07/2023 20:32

I don’t know what IBM is but I know that SCS is sofa, carpets, specialists

That's what they use on the adverts now as a kind of backronym, but it's not where SCS came from

NorthFaceofthelaundrypile · 20/07/2023 20:41

Yes, former boyfriend was an IBM-er and I’d also read a really interesting book called IBM and the holocaust - on how the Nazis had used their machines to co-ordinate to help organise the holocaust.

Nowaysunshine · 20/07/2023 20:34

Worked on their word processors for quite a long time in the 70's and we always called them itty bitty machines! :)

Moneynewpence · 20/07/2023 20:32

DontEatCrisps · 20/07/2023 19:59

Without looking it up, do you know what IBM stands for?

Yabu- I know
Yanbu- I don’t know.

Yes

TotheletterofthelawTHELETTER · 20/07/2023 20:32

I don’t know what IBM is but I know that SCS is sofa, carpets, specialists

guzzleandstuff · 20/07/2023 20:31

Always known

stiltonbriecheddar · 20/07/2023 20:30

Yea, but only because my Dad worked there for many years