Comments by "" (@ronjon7942) on "Apple‘s Struggle to Survive the IBM PC" video.

  1.  @Aberusugi Archiving, yes. Training, no - it actually decreased since everyone uses Office anyway. We did use a lot of the collaboration aspects, but still, it took people more training to use it effectively. MS Teams was rolled out, I’m not sure if we transitioned to SharePoint - I don’t work there anymore. When I did go back after 10-15 years, I was stunned (and annoyed) at how much internal social media was being used. IBM really did manage to get rid of us ‘old’ 40-50 years old employees and went crazy at hiring kids. I absolutely loved IBM when I was there - both times - so I hope the gutting that Sam and Ginni did works out for them. My second tour was with a completely different IBM, foundering, trying almost everything to generate sales. It seemed to have mostly failed.
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  2. More trivia: As far as I know, I was the only employee that loved Notes. Laf, I was so blue I actually used Smart Suite until I literally couldn’t due to compatibility with everything - even WordPad! So sad what Ginni did to a great company. When IBM finally dominated the Unix market w Power and AIX, I thought I was going to retire there. I hope they don’t ‘IBM’ Red Hat next.
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  3. Yup, and disappointing. OS/2 was a fantastic operating system, but they recognized their mistake WAY too late. When the PC came out, IBM was of the mind the money was all in the hardware - which it was (and is) with the mainframe, although in fairness, they make a ton of $ with mainframe software. It’s such a shame they literally cut their own throat introducing a personal computer with off the shelf parts. Had they taken the time to either develop or buy an operating system, the world, with no exaggeration, would be different.
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  4. Yeah, even in the used market, which is where I play.
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  5.  @ajax700 We used Outlook and Office, when I was blue.
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  6. Yeah, you’re not wrong. I do wish IBM hadn’t gone out of there way to become irrelevant because they had so much great technology - I still have Power and AIX in my lab for the occasional freelance work, and love it. But I pretty much transitioned to Apple for all my personal use, and use Linux when I have to - generally RedHat.
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  7.  @ajax700 Yeah, even when we got shiny new Macintoshes in school, I thought that display was…small. Everyone continued to use our IIe’s.
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  8. Concur.
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  9. Edit this again. No one deserves to die in agony. Not even you.
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  10. Same, but went the C64 route. I tried a Packard Bell PC, but returned it. I really didn’t get ignited or excited about computers until I went to work for IBM, where I did crash courses on anything PC, although it wasn’t until I started working with IBM’s Unix - AIX - and the Power Platform (which I love to this day) that my career really began. No more PC-weinie for me! …until Linux.
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  11. Saw one in an antique store. I’d have bought it if it was an IBM.
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  12. iPhones and iPads are used pretty heavily in medical. They were vanguarded by radiologists and doctors because of the Retina graphics and uber conveniences. Laf, when I was a sysadmin at a hospital, we (IT) tried to put the kabosh on them because of standardization and security concerns, but got summarily vetoed by the people that actually generated revenue. :)
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