Post ARHpKfPFmD08N16okK by arclight@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #ARHpKddMMn62sBh3SK by arclight@mastodon.social
2023-01-03T14:39:34Z
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A recent thread from @bitsavers has added another computer history/memoir to my list (Dave Packard's "The HP Way"); see https://oldbytes.space/@bitsavers/109622471689143002(Aside: Here's a positive use case for QTs - referring to but not hijacking threads)I preemptively wonder if the corporate hagiographies are much less insightful than one is led to believe. Aren't case studies just business fairy tales set in far-gone idyllic lands not beset by the modern pestilence of product managers, VCs, oligarchs, and SAP?
(DIR) Post #ARHpKeVF8SCLZIu5RY by rrmutt@mastodon.social
2023-01-04T01:39:34Z
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@arclight @bitsavers I'd love to see a book about how MBA ideology took HP from a world-leading engineering firm to little more than a overpriced printer-ink scam.
(DIR) Post #ARHpKfPFmD08N16okK by arclight@mastodon.social
2023-01-03T14:48:15Z
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Dunno. My impression is that the key to business success in the US is to be a tall white man, ideally one with affluent parents. Beyond that, it's luck, networking, and flexible ethics. Ability, effort, and vision are somewhere down there around penmanship and diction. #SmallDictionEnergy
(DIR) Post #ARHpKguqAFrV3GtYcS by arclight@mastodon.social
2023-01-03T14:55:41Z
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Aside: An appalling fraction of high-level managers and C-suite types in the nuclear industry are unable to correctly pronounce the word "nuclear".IMO that should disqualify you from a management role in this field. It displays a fatal inattention to detail and an inability/unwillingness to observe, reflect, and adjust one's behavior and habits.New.Clee.Ur.It's not difficult; it's just preschool phonics.
(DIR) Post #ARHpKiPiaw9hhKLjO4 by arclight@mastodon.social
2023-01-03T15:08:48Z
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"Nuculer" is a shibboleth of incompetence at best, malice at worst.
(DIR) Post #ARNaMEg1nISDgZ0Lxo by wa7iut@mastodon.radio
2023-01-04T01:47:10Z
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@rrmutt @arclight @bitsavers I had a front row seat to that.
(DIR) Post #ARNaMFMDGSCLnOk2iW by wa7iut@mastodon.radio
2023-01-04T01:51:20Z
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@rrmutt @arclight @bitsavers HP was truely like this when I started in ‘79.https://youtu.be/Iqv6DhtLay4
(DIR) Post #ARNaMG98KZKWF7d6y8 by wa7iut@mastodon.radio
2023-01-04T03:30:18Z
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@rrmutt @arclight @bitsavers I have an HP-200C in my office that I got Bill and Dave to autograph one of the last times I saw them in Boise.
(DIR) Post #ARNcQ0UweUhcmGkMXQ by Hyolobrika@social.fbxl.net
2023-01-06T22:18:20.929129Z
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@arclight >correct pronunciationLol
(DIR) Post #ARNdaspjabqg95DlCK by enigmatico@mk.absturztau.be
2023-01-06T22:30:27.950Z
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@rrmutt@mastodon.social @arclight@mastodon.social @bitsavers@oldbytes.space afaik, HP and most if not all major brands do that crap. "You don't have color! You can't print!""But it's black and white, and I have B&W ink!""It doesn't matter! You need color to print!""But...""YOU NEED COLOR!!"