Who BM?

I'm celebrating by buying a Thinkpad X220. Presumptuous asshole.

>>19358993
^This. IBM is irrelevant nowadays. The 80s are long over.

The Model M will live forever.

We did for a short while
It was bundled with the space shuttle's 30 years

>>19359008

> IBM is irrelevant nowadays

Sure is summer around here.

>>19358989
Fuck your family

>>19359008
>implying you don't own a PC that's at least somewhat IBM-compatible

>>19359036
Nazi scum.

>>19359060
Jews are the reason companies are so greedy these days

>>19359077
Yeah it was sometime in June

>>19359087
IBM is always involved with awesome videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvTe1-a6Pdo

This video was for IBM by staff.

>>19358989
Didn't realize.
Cheers.

dat sitting position

>Implying IBM wasn't the worst thing to ever happen to computing

>>19359329
>Invented everything
>Worst

>>19359329
without IBM, each computer manufactor would be another apple.

>>19359339
invented what, exactly?

>>19359344
*manufacturer

>>19359008
Yeah, you just remember that when I'm writing your ass up on a Selectric.

>>19359329
Former packard bell employee detected

>>19359348
Most of the shit here
http://www.ibm.com/ibm100/us/en/icons/

Britfag here, this just reminds me of the sad story of Acorn vs Sinclair.

IBM is >> 1 from HAL. FUN FACT!

IBM created the numbering system for Hitler to number the Jews with in his camps for easy categorizing.

who gets gassed
who gets raped
who gets to worked to death.

so if you are jewish and support IBM in any way shape or form you are a disgusting traitor.

>>19359348
Everything. Including traffic signals

>>19359389
Jude swine

>>19359389
>2011
>Caring about the holocaust
>Not blaming the holocaust on America
>Not realising the German division of IBM was segmented from the rest of IBM at the time

Amerifat detected

>>19359344
If IBM had things their way, they would be another Apple.
The PC certainly did not start out as a platform of open standards. They tried to prevent third-party manufacturers, charging high "licensing fees" to any manufacturers who wanted to make accessories for the PC.
When this failed, they tried again in 1987 with the PS/2 line using new proprietary hardware... much of which quickly became the industry standard.
IBM got out of the PC market when they realized they couldn't control it.
IBM truly was a "big evil corporate giant" in the 80s. Luckily they've gone to great lengths to change this.

>>19359367
>Stupidly named variations of existing inventions
I'm sure you don't care that Apple invented personal computers

>>19359390
>implying IBM invented recession.

>>19359406
>IBM truly was a "big evil corporate giant" in the 80s.

Ohu packard bell employee

>If IBM had things their way, they would be another Apple.

Nope. Apple tries to be another IBM (Protip: "Think different" is a play on the IBM slogan that had been in place since the 1930s or something). They fail horribly

test!

>>19359409
>DRAM
>Relational databases
>RISC
>Hi K silicon
>Copper interconnects
>Hard drives
>High speed tape
>ATMs
>Cash Cards
>Barcodes
>Floppies
Yeahno. Show me another company which has achieved that much
Also, TRS 80 came around before apple shit

>>19359430
ME TOO!

>>19359406
alright, but the others were clearly no better at that time. Just because ibm didn't do good on purpose doesn't mean that it didn't turn out to be a good thing for propagation of computers in retrospective.

>>19359443
Wal-Mart.
/thread

>>19359429
>Ohu packard bell employee
Nope.
>Nope. Apple tries to be another IBM
Ok, you're right. Apple today is trying to be IBM of 25 years ago.
IBM then: overpriced hardware, you could build your own superior computer for much less money
Apple today: see above
The main difference: most of the IBM hardware was of superior quality, but the Apple stuff does look nicer.

>>19359389
the gassings have been proven many times to just be post war bullshit to get more money
also
>implying jews shouldnt be killed off

>People saying IBM was evil

They funded so much research in the 80s, that we wouldnt be where we are today without them.

We'd be so many years behind without them.

You owe them everything

>>19359050
>Implying I don't own an iMac G5 running YDL.

>>19359490
>forgetting about the Library of Alexandria.

My dad was an EE working for IBM. I think he'd fit in well here- hates microsoft & bill gates, loves linux.

I still remember as a kid I'd watch as he'd pull apart computer machines. Learned all the basics off him

>>19359460
Oh, don't get me wrong: I acknowledge and respect all the contributions IBM made to technology in general, not only computers. The first computer I bought (with my own money, not the family TRS-80) was a PS/2 Model 30.
However, I stick by what I said before: 25-30 years ago, they were the stereotypical "Evil Big Corporation" and they have gone to great lengths to change that.

>>19359514
>implying the library of alexandria was actually of any use once uncovered

POWER is strong.

Its kinda shame they moved away from consumer market.

>>19359527
>forgetting this.

>>19359553
>Implying that graph is accurate
>Implying the existence of the dark ages isn't debatable by scholars much smarter than you.
Typical fucking American.

>>19359553

For fuck's sake, the Romans did NOTHING for the advancement of science, NOTHING. Whoever made this chart is fucking clueless.

>>19359597
>Someone criticises Christianity
>Call them a typical American
Just kill yourself

>>19359526
30 years ago, I had an Atari 800. Never swallowed the IBM kool-aid, although many of my friends did. Thought it was too starchy and boring. Glad I avoided it.

How amazing it was to learn how much Atari (and Commie-dore, to be fair) contributed to the fledgling un*x market at the time. Can't say the same for IBM or Microsoft.

Sucks to be nerds.

>>19359607
0/10

or you don`t consider maths a science ?

>>19359611
What? I called you an American because you like to use hoax graphs that are blatantly wrong as fact and don't care that you're spreading misinformation.
If anything an American would be happy that I'm putting that shitty graph to rest, since they're all a bunch of idiots who still believe in god.

>>19359634
>doing math without a zero

>>19359607
>forgetting vomitoriums and orgies.

As a rabbid Amiga fanboy, I can't really celebrate the beggining of the end, but I admit that IBM did a lot for the computing world, much more than Microsoft or Apple. But I'm not going to celebrate something that made x86 widespread.
Just think about it, what generation of Motorola we could have been using at this time if it wasn't for IBM compatibles.

>>19359634

Are you kidding me? Please tell me you're kidding me.

>>19359637
scratch that, I'm gonna make a Roman Numeral CPU to prevent div/0 problems

>>19359636
Seriously? The dark ages did nothing to hinder scientific progress? You're running with that? Really?

>>19359642
Fuck you, for not mentioning OS/2 in there :)

>>19359654
All CPUs use binary, you dolt.

If you do manage it, demand an EE degree from some decent college for it.

>>19359653

Yes, I'm fucking mad with all the clueless morons who use this chart.

>>19359645
No you are beeing plain retarded.

They made so much in practical field (enginering) and in theoretical...

>>19359666
>no sense of humor
Power7, decimal FPU (yes, I realize it's not a CPU)

>>19359667
wtf is your problem with it christfag?

>>19359673

We are talking mathematics here, not engineering. And what did they accomplish in engineering that wasn't already there in one form or another?

>>19359705
Where did the christfag even come from?

>>19359665
Oh, I do like OS/2 and z/OS and all IBM CPU architectures, but those have little to do with IBM PC and the standards it would set.

iBM? I didn't see that in the Apple store xD

>>19359659
Yes because the dark ages were not dark.

>>19359719
... and the apollo moon landings were faked?

>>19359713
>Where did the christfag even come from?
any time someone apologizes for christianity, they are a christfag.

>>19359734
Here, I'll give you a base to start your research on.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages_%28historiography%29#Notes

And of course this little tid bit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages_%28historiography%29#Modern_academic_use

IBM needs to garner more attention
A lot of kids these days probably don't even know they exist

But it looks like they've kicked into the
>We'll just sit here for eternity making the world run without you knowing
mode
Only those in the industry know them now
After the PC went to Lenovo

>>19359750
>any time someone apologizes for christianity, they are a christfag
Where the fuck did I apologize for the fucking christians you colossal moron? Fuck off.

>>19359761
I don't think that last guy was trying to say you're a christfag, dude. Calm down.
He's right though, you said that graph is shit and some idiots went "LOL UR CHRISTAN THAT'S THE ONLY REASON YOU COULD POSSIBLY HATE THE GRAPH"

>>19359767

No, I fucking said that the Romans did not advance science. I made no mention of the christians.

>>19359775
Like I said, idiots having fallacious assumptions.

>>19359778

Anyway, I'm fucking pissed off right now. I'm fucking tired of people praising the Romans as if they were the best fucking thing that ever happened while disregarding other civs that made so much more than them.

>>19359798
Popular culture can do that.

> thread about ibm pc
> suddenly discussing about middle-ages and romans
fyi: the ibm pc was 30 years ago, not 3000

>>19359755
Interesting, so what I'm getting from this is that the Dark Ages were actuall a period of history that we don't know much about.

>>19359806
u jelly?

>>19359775
>Romans, implying Christians.

>>19359809
That's pretty much what the term means now. The Dark Ages as a period where people regressed hundreds of years or something isn't accepted as historical fact anymore.

IBM is the enemy of freedom, Steve Jobs said so.

>>19359798
Who praised the romans? Did anyone at all during this thread ever say or insenuate "hail, Caesar?" No.

>2011
>Still arguing about the dark ages

Protips: It had very little to do with christianity
Protips: it was only a part of the world
Protips: Technological stagnation isn't really that significant. We spent hundreds of thousands of years without any sort of technology beyond a stick and a rock

>>19359831
>IBM is the enemy of freedom, Bill Joy said so.
ftfy

>>19359611
>hurrdurr everyone in the Middle Ages were bible thumping Christians

Kill yourself.

No modern historian even recognizes the title of the "Dark Ages" as anything more than base colloquialism by this point. There were numerous advances during that time, like the foundation for the modern university system + the modern hospital system we still use day, the invention of tools such as the heavy plow and eye glasses, the clock and the hourglass, the telescope... I could go on and on. And that's not even getting into the scientific advancements the Chinese and early Arabs made.

>>19359861
>I could go on and on.
But you saged.

>>19359880
>>19359876
Classy retorts, sons.

Also
>Implying sage is a personal insult

>>19359861

Also, better weapons, and GUNS.

But the world trade certainly suffered with the collapse of the Roman Empire.

>>19359884
Not at all, just pointing it out. He said he could go on and on but decided instead to an hero. Suit yourself. Way to contribute.

>>19359893
>>19359904
>sage is an an hero

Stopped reading there.

>>19359634
Math is not science. Math is a tool used for science.

>>19359329
Surely you've heard of Macroshit Wangblows?

OP here.

Never change /g/.

>>19359951

What did you expect? A generic celebration of IBM's contributions and influence to the personal computer industry?

Everyone knows about that. This is /g/. This is 4chan. We're here to lob idiocy back and forth and troll the living shit out of each other.

>>19359978
>dis iz 4chan xD
Fuck off. /g/ is for technology discussion. IBM is technology, Christianity is not, nor is
>trolling
Take that shit to /b/

>>19360046
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>>19360046
>implying trolling doesn't occur on /g/ all day erry day