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Thursday, November 20th, 2008
Leave Detroit Alone: It Worked for IBM
I thought this article was pretty insightful:
Much like the big 3, IBM also posted historic losses…. in fact their loss of 8 billion was then the largest ever yearly loss in history. They never filed for Chapter 11, but came very close to doing so. If the government had simply stepped in and thrown some [...]
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Saturday, November 15th, 2008
60s Era IBM Disk Drives uncovers Apollo Data
Moon dust data collected in the late 60’s and early 70’s by apollo missions’ dust collectors, was filed away due to a lack of interest from the scientific community. 2 copies of the moon data were made. NASA kept one and Sydney University kept the other. Nasa lost theirs. Sydney’s had [...]