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Rose@piefed.social to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 19 hours ago

Ancient IBM wisdom (from 1979) that the bosses just straight up promptly forgot

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Ancient IBM wisdom (from 1979) that the bosses just straight up promptly forgot

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Rose@piefed.social to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 19 hours ago
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Apparently a page from an internal IBM training manual. Some further attempts at source it

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    Reminds me of Woz’s old saying “Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window.”

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      That became easier with phones huh.

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        Yes, really easy to throw cloud out the window

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          With clouds it’s easy, they are already outside the windows.

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