I worked for IBM for 35 years. When I retired in 2018, I was replaced by two Indians. Their opinion of their talent was FAR higher than warranted. Six months after I left, they sent an update of our code to one of our biggest customers. And the system crashed after running for about an hour. They were not happy. You can't cheap your way to prosperity.

If it's just SiriusXM, just add this to another reason to avoid SiriusXM. I had it, and wanted to cancel. Can't do it online. I ended up arguing/yelling interminably at the "customer" service representative, I will NEVER get it again.

You can write a check to yourself to get cash. I've done that many times.

Datasouth, Texas Instruments.

No. If one is paying attention, one should NEVER have a rear-end. I've been driving over 50 years and haven't had a rear end yet. I also have a motorcycle and airplane. Haven't wrecked either. I have been hit by other drivers not paying attention, but automatic braking wouldn't have worked. (car hit me coming out of a blind spot). I've been coding over 40 years, and wouldn't trust code written by the lowest cost provider.

To keep my 79 Fiat.

I beg to differ. My 79 Fiat convertible with a 5 speed manual is a blast to drive.

According to US News & World Report, California ranks 20th https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.usnews.com%2Fnews%2Fbe... Florida is ranked first.

You can actually run z/os on a PC. Using Hercules, or (supported, with a licensed version of z/OS) on https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ibm.com%2Fdocs%2Fen%2Fzd... And you can run zLinux under qemu.

It was decided that it wasn't necessary to run on the target. That was the goal for PLX-ETC. Some other group did release stuff using PLX-ETC that ran on Solaris.

You may laugh, but MANY years ago, I was working at IBM on some code that processed checks. It was written in an IBM internal language (PL/X), that ran on OS/2 and Linux. There was no PL/X compiler for the desired target machine (Linux on system/z). I found some old IBM software called PLX-ETC. PL/X would spit out assembler for the target. But PLX-ETC would spit out "C" that you could compile on the desired platform. PLX-ETC had extra switches for instance big/little endian and many others. It actually worked, but gave absolutely unreadable "C" code. We never released anything from PLX-ETC.

Then why was there a GoFundMe? They raised almost 300000 pounds.

The buckling spring keyboard was patented by IBM in the 70's. I still have one, and will NEVER switch to a new keyboard unless it has the same feel.

Heathkit 6800 based. 1/4 K Ram (sounds bigger than 256). Keypad. First at work was spectrometer run by Data General Nova. With toggle switches.

The IBM 4214 was made for IBM by Centronics. It's character width was 9. But it had to be software compatible with the 5224/5225, which had a character width of 8. Graphics on these printers were done via a LAC(load alternate character) command. As a result, the last slice was duplicated. And an additional command (LAC2?.. It was almost 40 years ago) was defined with nine slices, but just for the 4214. Also, the proprinter was able to do NLQ by interpolating an additional pixel, at 1/2 pixel heights.