Evidence, schemvidence. Why let facts get in the way of a good myth? Why
are you being such a heartless person by denying that Carly, upon reviewing
the code for the SQL interface to TURBOIMAGE decided to terminate the HP3000
right there and then?
Next thing you know, you will be telling us that there was no evidence that
St. Hillary, (who, by the way, was named after the famed Kiwi mountaineer,
Edmund Hillary, a full 6 years before he reached the summit of Everest,) did
not fly into Benghazi that fateful night in a desperate attempt to save her
good friend, the US ambassador to Libya but had to turn back when she came
under withering sniper fire. Again.
Could you please let our cherished delusions be and get back to your COBOL
programming? (BTW, I still can't believe that I am forever programming in
COBOL also.)
Denys
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From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of Roy Brown
Sent: Wednesday, May 6, 2015 7:15 AM
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Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Voting for the ex-HP candidate?
In message <[log in to unmask]>, Ron Seybold
<[log in to unmask]> writing at 14:51:04 in his/her local time opines:-
>Hello friends,
>
>This morning the former CEO of HP, Carly Fiorina, announced her run for
>President. If you got a chance to do so, would you vote for her? After
>all these years, is her handling of the HP 3000 the right thing for HP
>to have done?
>
>(Note: I got asked that latter question today by Computerworld. You
>might see one of my sentences in the story.)
>
>Thanks for the replies,
>
>Ron Seybold
>3000 Newswire
I never saw any evidence that Carly even *knew* that HP had the HP3000.
I remember seeing her speak to the assembled throng at HP Bristol back in
the early days of her tenure though - an inspirational speech of large
promise and boundless horizons.
After which I went back to my desk and continued chipping away at a large
block of COBOL, until I had fashioned a thing of wondrous beauty that nobody
ever used in the end :-(
Roy
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Roy Brown 'Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be
Kelmscott Ltd useful, or believe to be beautiful' William Morris
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