IBM orders US sales to locate near customers, RTO for cloud staff, DEI purge

Link: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/18/ibm_orders_us_sales_staff/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43727727

IBM orders US sales to locate near customers, RTO for cloud staff, DEI purge

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/18/ibm_orders_us_sales_staff/

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Les événements du 16 avril.
En 1955, le mot #ordinateur est inventé par Jacques Perret à la demande de la société #IBM, pour décrire l’IBM 650. …
https://www.histoiredesinventions.com/16-avril/

All those words and they didn't even consider that it's a symbol to represent a physical margin/tab-stop from typewriters smh XP

https://blog.glyphdrawing.club/why-is-there-a-small-house-in-ibm-s-code-page-437/

Numbers, please! 30-30 Winchester: Hard disk standard from mainframe to IBM PC

The pioneering hard disk concept of the IBM 3340 became the industry standard as the 30-30 or Winchester, which also found its way into PCs in the 1980s.

https://www.heise.de/en/background/Numbers-please-30-30-Winchester-Hard-disk-standard-from-mainframe-to-IBM-PC-10352667.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

Zahlen, bitte! 30-30 Winchester: Festplattenstandard vom Großrechner zum IBM-PC

Das wegweisende Festplattenkonzept der IBM 3340 mauserte sich als 30-30 oder Winchester zum Industriestandard, der in den 1980ern auch Einzug in PCs hielt.

https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Zahlen-bitte-30-30-Winchester-Festplattenstandard-vom-Grossrechner-zum-IBM-PC-10352336.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

"Without IBM's machinery, continuing upkeep and service, as well as the supply of punch cards, whether located on-site or off-site, Hitler's camps could have never managed the numbers they did."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

i didn't know that i needed a 15-part series of cassettes and projector slides on servicing the ibm selectric until tonight. the HAL-9000 soundalike narrator only adds to the repose

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bcl1jczxvRo&list=PLHT97Xg067fCkONv0EKmS74a-csWbttXl

Why is there a “small house” in IBM’s Code Page 437?

There's a small house ( ⌂ ) in the middle of IBM's infamous character set Code Page 437. "Small house"—that's the official IBM name given to the glyph at code position 0x7F, where a control character for "Delete" (DEL) should logically exist. It's cute, but a little strange. I wonder, how did it get there? Why did IBM represent DEL a

https://www.osnews.com/story/142115/why-is-there-a-small-house-in-ibms-code-page-437/