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this was part of some research I did when i turned up the reference manual from mascor, ca. 1970, which is the missing link between IBM ACS and the ACS engineers that went to Amdahl.

http://bitsavers.org/pdf/mascor

it was one of several large computer startups that failed in the 1970 recession


Thanks for doing what you do, by the way. Your site is one of the few remaining points of record for interesting older documents like this.

if you mean you couldn't find them on bitsavers, look under ibm/370/CICS


There are packages available that screen scrape 3270 streams and reformat them to export as html.


It’s really a quite simple transformation. All the core ideas are the same, just the presentation is different.



bitsavers hasn't auto-redirected in years, but it is random where the search engines will pull from a mirror.


Make documents and software available that no one else had. Some people like to fly under the Wikipedia self-promotion radar.


"The company wants to reinvent community-based repositories of information, such as Quora or Wikipedia, using a chatbot to generate the entries instead of humans. "

DO NOT WANT!


"His tenacity has led to superhuman-like accomplishments"

Was this written by ChatGPT? No human could possibly be that stupid.


The headline reads "Why employees FIRED by Sundar Pichai" Why the editing?


"some of the higher ups at Salesforce told me they were pretty ticked off about how the employees seemed to have declined in engagement and productivity. "

I wonder, could it be that people are at their emotional wits end over what has happened to their lives since 2019?


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