IBM (help settle an argument)

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

Yabu- I know
Yanbu- I don’t know.

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

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

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

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

Yes
Never worked for them or their competitors

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

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

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

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

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

Yes. I'm long term technology industry,

Yes. Used to be a big head office near Portsmouth

Chocolatehelps - also Dalek headquarters...

Idiots Become Managers.

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

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

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...

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."

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

No, but I know HAL is the letters next to IBM.

Inter-continental ballistic missile is the first thing that comes to mind followed by the tech company my DH did some sub-contracted work for 20 years ago.

Yes, yabu I've known for years what IBM stands for.

No

I worked on VAX kit as well, writing endless amounts of COBOL code. Was nicer than writing RPG code for the AS/400.

Still writing code now, but a million miles away from COBOL and RPG.

International Business Machines.

They used to have a very interesting way of becoming the biggest supplier of cash registers. It involved shooting rival sales men (and they were all men then).