22 Nov
2021
22 Nov
'21
5:40 p.m.
On 11/22/21 2:59 PM, Guy Sotomayor via cctalk wrote:
In my case it's stuff that *I* didn't save and
just tossed it because
"Why would I ever want this anymore?".? I *really* regret tossing all of
the source for stuff I wrote while I was at IBM. It was after all IBM's
property (since I wrote it all as an IBM employee) and I doubt any of it
survives in any form anywhere, but I still wish I had some of it.? :-(
Think of all of the software and documentation that may still
reside/resided in government hands. I suspect that much of it was
intentionally and thoroughly destroyed.
I can think of one project that had 1500 GSA programmers working. I
doubt that a single line of that survives.
--Chuck