8 Nov
2014
8 Nov
'14
7:50 a.m.
Civil Bytes: Our New Governor Should Upgrade State?s Sorry Technology
http://www.civilbeat.com/2014/11/civil-bytes-our-new-governor-should-upgrad…
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Stephane
18 Nov
18 Nov
12:29 a.m.
This article disturbs me. There are social solutions as well as tech
solutions - and are they destined to be yet another suckler upon the
never-ending upgrade teat that is Microsoft? Here's hoping that as they
determine what must be migrated, they consider open-source solutions that
create local jobs, rather than paying rent to Redmond.
On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 4:50 AM, St?phane Tsacas <stephane.tsacas at gmail.com>
wrote:
Civil Bytes: Our New Governor Should Upgrade State?s
Sorry Technology
http://www.civilbeat.com/2014/11/civil-bytes-our-new-governor-should-upgrad…
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Stephane
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Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS
Ph.D. Candidate
The Information School
University of Washington
An optimist sees a glass half full. A pessimist sees it half empty. An
engineer sees it twice as large as it needs to be.
11:15 a.m.
Yeah, it does kind of sound like one of those places...
On the other hand, I suppose it's nice to know that even in this late day
and age, there's still some vintage gear to be found alive and kicking yet
out in the wild!
Collectors in HI keep your eyes peeled... it's probably pretty expensive to
ship an 11/780 in from off the island ;)
Best,
Sean
On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 12:29 AM, Ian S. King <isking at uw.edu> wrote:
This article disturbs me. There are social solutions
as well as tech
solutions - and are they destined to be yet another suckler upon the
never-ending upgrade teat that is Microsoft? Here's hoping that as they
determine what must be migrated, they consider open-source solutions that
create local jobs, rather than paying rent to Redmond.
On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 4:50 AM, St?phane Tsacas <stephane.tsacas at gmail.com
wrote:
> Civil Bytes: Our New Governor Should Upgrade State?s Sorry Technology
http://www.civilbeat.com/2014/11/civil-bytes-our-new-governor-should-upgrad…
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> Stephane
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Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS
Ph.D. Candidate
The Information School
University of Washington
An optimist sees a glass half full. A pessimist sees it half empty. An
engineer sees it twice as large as it needs to be.
4:56 p.m.
On the other hand, I suppose it's nice to know
that even in this late day
and age, there's still some vintage gear to be found alive and kicking yet
out in the wild!
Collectors in HI keep your eyes peeled... it's probably pretty expensive to
ship an 11/780 in from off the island ;)
I think you guys are jumping to conclusions with the VAX-11/780 thing.
The article is using a picture they grabbed from the net - not the
actual machine (notice that the picture shows the VAX in an
environment that is clearly not a datacenter. Then there is that
picture of the terminal...). It is quite common for crap journalism to
assume that any big mainframe dates to when the line was introduced.
The IBM guys get it all the time - their latest super duper Z box will
be called a 50 year old dinosaur.
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Will
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