Comments by "GH1618" (@GH-oi2jf) on "Logically Answered" channel.

  1. Muilenburg, who was CEO and Chairman, was an engineer. He was a lifer at Boeing, starting as an engineer.
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  2.  @RS-ls7mm  — Muilenburg mishandled the first crash badly, leading to the second crash and greatly increasing the damage to Boeing.
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  3. Recall that the CEO at the time of the 737 MAX crashes was Dennis Muilenburg, who rose to the executive ranks from Boeing engineering.
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  4. I am using Sony headphones right now. It is still a brand I trust and will buy.
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  5. They should be powerful. Big business depends on IBM because IBM takes care of their customers. We (almost) all depend on these businesses, so when their computer systems are running well, it is good for everyone who depends on them. Remember the CrowdStrike fiasco? That was not IBM.
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  6. Actually, the Jacquard loom was the first machine that used punched cards. Hollerith developed a punched card system for the Bureau of the Census. Where I worked, we called them "Hollerith cards," not "IBM cards," partly because we didn't use IBM computers, I suppose.
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  7. Nokia doesn't make the new phones. They license their name. I wonder how involved they are with the design. I've never wanted an IPhone. I need a new phone and am considering a Nokia. My favorite phone was the original RAZR. The new RAZR is much too expensive to consider. I would never buy a phone with Wndows in it. What a bad idea!
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  8. OS/2 was the best operating system for personal computers that I used. Their loss is our loss.
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  9. A company may not force its employees to unionize, nor prevent tham from doing so.
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  10. There is nothing wrong with business using EBCIDIC. Character conversion for portable documents in ASCII is trivial.
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  11. Where did you hear that the AS/400 "never worked"? Its successors are still around today under different names.
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  12. No, by the time WWII started, IBM unit record equipment was used world wide. These machines were just calculators, essentially, and were already in Axis countries. The punched cards they used are no more sophisticated than pencils. It was impossible to prevent Germany from using machines which it already had.
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  13. I spent more that 40 years in the computer industry and have used many different computers and programming languages. I don't love any company, although I have worked for some I liked and some I disliked. Most companies have had some aspects I liked and others I disliked. I used Sun workstations for a time, but didn't work for Sun. It was ok, but not my favorite of the many programming environments I have used. I don't think it is appropriate to tell others what they "ought to love."
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  14. No.
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  15. I once had a job where almost everybody used a Sun workstation. Sun had a catchphrase "the network is the computer.". What that meant, in practice, was that anyone in the company could run things in my workstation and make it do strange things, and some people did. I don't miss it.
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