There also was another source of the software: books. From 1960-s to 1990-s there were many books with source code listings. These required typing, but many programs were small. This worked well in science. An author of a book got his/her money from the publisher, it was independent from hardware makers and kinda worked. All ended with the Internet of course.
What people don't realize is that until the tech boom coding was not seen as a prestigious job, it was a technical vocation only a handful of people even knew the necessity of. That's why you see so many women coding early computers, because the men were typically building them and running the experiments on them.
Besides the Ada Lovelace story I had no idea about this until now. I've seen a lot of people, myself included, buy into the thought that women biologically lack skill in logic and mathematics, and it's incredible to me that most early programming was done by women. I knew I was wrong but not by so much!
WRONG: SINCE 1965 EVERY SCHOOL AND COLLEGE AND TECH SCHOOL IN THE USA PUSHED PROGRAMMING AS A GLAMOUR CAREER!!! WITH HIGH PAY!! I HAVE TRAINED HUNDREDS OF BOTH MEN AND WOMEN WHEN I WORKED IN COLLEGES, TECH SCHOOLS AND CONSULTING!!! MAJORITY OF PROGRAMMERS WERE MEN 2/3 1/3 WOMEN AND MINORITIES. EVERONE HAS TO TAKE A PROGRAMMING COURSE IN COLLEGE. THERE IS ALWAYS NEW TECHNOLOGY AND NEW DEMAND FOR PROGRAMMERS. IT IS HARD WORK AND MANY PEOPLE AFTER ONE PROGRAMMING COURSE DECIDE IT IS NOT FOR THEM AND GO INTO OTHER PROFESSIONS OTHERS LIKE THE CHALLENGE AND ENTER THE FIELD!! PEOPE AT A PARTY WERE ALWAYS IMPRESSED WHEN I SAID i TEACH COMPUTER PROGRAMMING"
When you think of all the different software functions inside an office bundle... and considering the majority of us never use many of those functions, it's strange to think of the history of office software bundles. Back then, it would have seemed inconceivable to write all that useful code, just to bundle it with a suite anyone can afford (free in some cases)
There was a shift in corporate strategy from hardware-brained profit maximization to software-brained. The "old" guard don't get it and thus try protect the wrong things. I think now the pendulum has swung too far to everything as a service.
Fortran dominant in the 1950's? Man it was dominant until the 90's for engineering and science and its libraries are still in wide use - translated to other languages or linked to programs written in other languages. Still see people using it directly.
Yeah, ackchyoollie quite a few algebra libraries for languages like Java use wrappers for LAPack and BLAS that are written in Fortran. Also, as a small kid in the pre-collapse soviet union, I've had a kid's book about computers where one of the protagonists was called Prof. Fortran.
WRONG: ENGINEERS AND MATH TEACHERS AND MATH PROF PREFER TRADITIONAL MATH CALCULUS(16TH CENTURY MATH) WHICH IS DONE USING ALGEBRA, CALULUS BY HAND. COMPUTERS USE STATISTICS + ALGEBRA(FORTRAN IS JUST ALGEBRA). COMPUTERS DO NOT USE CALCULUS!!! INSTEAD STATISTICAL PROGRAMMING LANGUES: R, SPSS, SAS. ENGINEERS AVOID STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY METHODS!!! THEY USUALLY JUST FALL BACK ON CALCULUS +ALGEBRA + DIFF EQUATION THAT DO NOT REQUIRE COMPUTER PROGRAMMING!!(DONE BY HAND + HEAD). I TAUGHT MYSELF FORTRAN WHEN I WAS 14!! I ONLY USED FORTAN ONCE IN 50 YEARS OF PROGRAMMING!!! COBOL, ASSEMBLER, C, C++, C#, PYTHON, HTML MYSQL, SQL ARE THE PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES USED TODAY.
Rolls Royce does almost exactly the same as IBM did back in the old days. The customer pays for each hour they run the engine and the manufacturer pays for all servicing so the "owner" of the engine only has variable costs. IBM still controlled the market in servicing. You had to be a registered engineer to get the key to it. One of my old staff used to do it and explained all of this back in the early 90s.
@@MIO9_sh And in some ways the cloud is just a return of leased processing and in some cases for the same reasons as long ago, If you are a smallish firm doing say AI research you cannot afford the hardware, staff and power needs for that kind of processing. But for a nominal fee you can use Amazon's compute resources that are already built. In previous times it was similar, many firms were too small to afford the hardware needed to do their processing jobs, it wasnt AI but it was still processing.
FinOps - A whole business model for managing the economics of cloud services. Cisco released an Expert series certification track for their licensing. You can be a Cisco Certified Licensing Expert and the test is really hard!
@@MIO9_sh yes, and in my opinion it's great. Modern hourly billing and the associated reporting/analysis capabilities encourage tech groups to operate with continual awareness of operational cost, and just as importantly it also allows capacity for short-lived experiments that was previously a lot more expensive to acquire. I don't ever want to go back to the common model for the first half of my career where costs had to be tracked across far more vendors (rented rack space, power, enclosures, external connectivity, networking, storage, maybe separate storage networking, compute, virtualization, ...) and it was much harder to attribute cost to customers or projects. You could absolutely still do it, but the labour intensity of doing so was absurd, and very few people in an org had access to all of the cost data. Extremely hard to assess and track cost of providing a service vs what a customer (external or internal) was billed for their service. Maybe other people had better experiences but this was mine, and I haven't heard otherwise from my industry peers.
Buying the engine vs. renting the engine goes to different areas of the P&L sheet. It also saves the user from specializing in something that is not his core business. Finally RR-engines are talking constantly to their homebase, which in some cases avoided crashes, because the pilots where warned by remote tecsnishans about upcoming issues during the flights. Lastly in some cases RR knew where planes where heading to even if no other tracking was available.
the early years of computers were interesting. a lot of things we take for granted now was not seen as normal. i thought 80s computers were strange because there was more than just mac and pc. but in this era it was like every computer was its own thing and you had a lot of unusual designs as people were trying to figure out the best way forward .
I was a mainframe computer operator in the late 70s and early 80s. This report brings back great memories of fun times in the machine room. I once worked at a company that had a System/360, being replaced by a Hewlett-Packard minicomputer. It was amazing to watch the system operate. Server farms have no such charm.
And here I thought it was the development of the C programming language and/or Unix which freed the software industry, allowing programs to be written independently of whatever hardware a customer would want them to run on. Those followed very shortly afterward: Unix in 1969, and C in 1972, from Bell Labs.
This and the nostalgic corporate images of 60’s computer rooms made me think of lowly C.C. "Bud" Baxter working at his Insurance Company juggling the use of “The Apartment”. 😄
SAP is a monster. Nowadays, whoever has to build the structure of a work organisation, take the functions (and job descriptions) from a SAP flowchart, and build the workplace accordingly. Just saying...
Good grief SAP SUCKS, like I get it, it probably possible to set it up in a way that's easier to navigate, and I understand the need for backwards compatibility, but the amount of time and money wasted fighting that monstrosity is insane
Yes SAP is a monster and a pain. The upside is that it forces structure and order into what otherwise would be a flying circus of monkeys chasing headless chickens with waffle bats. 🙂
I don't think any companies changed their business process to 'adapted' themselves to suit SAP. I know that a business will change it's processes, procedures, or protocols in order to suit SAP.
That was IBMs strength. Top of the line customer service. Above and beyond other computer manufacturers. Even if a Burroughs, or CDC computer was more powerful, people still tended to go to IBM, because of IBM's hand holding.
WRONG!!!!! THE IBM, UNIVAC AND HONEYWELL SOFTWARE LIBRARYS WERE USELESS FOR THE AVERAGE COMPANY!!!! THEY USUALLY CONSISTED OF SPECIALIZED OPERATING SYSTEM PROGRAMS. TSS, MITS(TIME SHARING), DOS, OS MFT, OS!!! AND UTILITIES AND USLESS JUNK!!! WRONG: UNBUNDLING MYTH, UNBUNDLING ONLY HELPED IBM PROFITS!!! UNBUNDLING WAS A 3% DISCOUNT ON "SERVICES YOU NEVER GOT"!!!!! YOU ALWAYS PAID FOR ANY IBM CONSULTING OR PROGRAMMING $250 TO $450 PER HOUR!!!S IF YOU BAUGHT AN IBM MAINFRAME 360/370, YOU GOT A SALEMAN WHO ALWAYS PICKED UP THE PHONE!! AND AN SE(SYSTEM ENGINEER, WHO NEVER PICKED UP THE PHONE OR WOULD NEVER CALL YOU BACK!!!). IBM'S REAL VALUE WAS IN IT'S REPAIR SERVICE. CE(CUSTOMERS ENGINEERS) WERE ALWAYS QUICK TO RESPOND SAME DAY OR NIGHT!!! NO OTHER COMPUTER MFG COULD MATCH IBM'S REPAIR RELIABILITY SERVICE!! THEN IBM DEVALUED THEIR CE'S AND SAID ANYONE COULD FIX A COMPUYTER OVER THE PHONE FROM INDIA, IBM DESTROYED THE IBM BRAND!!! WHEN GRANDMA COULD FIX HER OWN COMPUTER OVER THE PHONE FROM INDIA, WHY PAY IBM PREMIUM PRICES. BUY DELL, HP OR APPLE INSTEAD!!! TODAY THE IBM BRAND IS WORTHLESS. RCA SE'S WERE ALWAYS AVAILABLE(SINCE RCA HAD NO CUSTOMERS!!). IT IS THE SAME TODAY, IF YOU NEED A WEB SITE TO DO CUSTOMER SERVICE, SALES, BILLING YOU WRITE IT OR HIRE A CONSULTANT. DELL, IBM, HP DO NOT GIVE YOU A WEBSTE AND CUSTOM PROGRAMMER, WHEN YOU BUY A $1000 COMPUTER. TO SELL A MACHINE IBM, UNIVAC, HONEYWELL, RCA WOULD SELL YOU A MACHINE AND GIVE YOU A LIST OF CONSULTANTS. THESE REFERALS WERE GREAT!!!, THEN NOT GREAT, THEN VERY POOR!! THEN "NO TANKS, WE DO NOT WANT IBM WORTHLESS REFERALS!! (WE WERE NOT GOING TO LOSE MONEY TO HELP IBM SELL MACHINES!!! ALL HARDWARE MFG NEED A FALL GUY TO SAY BUY THE MACHINE, I'LL DO THE SOFTWARE!!!) AS MACHINES GOT CHEAPER AND CHEAPER THE REFERALS BECAME CHEAPER AND CHEAPER. IBM SALESMEN WOULD SELL A SYSTEM 34 FOR $50,000 AND TELL THE CUSTOMER TO ONLY PAY THE CONSULTANT $5,000 TO WRITE A CUSTOM BILLING PACKAGE. THAT WAS A JOKE!!! THEN IBM STARTED KEEPING ALL THE GOOD LEADS THEM SELF AND FORMED THEIR OWN CONSULTING/OUT SOURCE COMPANY GLOBAL SERVICES, WHICH COMPETED AGINST CONSULTANTS!! CONSULTANTS STARTED RECOMMENDING BETTER CHEAPER MACHINES FROM DELL, HP, APPLE IBM IS NOW JUST ANOTHER LINUX VEBDOR, RED HAT. IBM'S HARDWARE Z SYSTEMS DECLINES 20% PER YEAR. IBM IS ALMOST TOTALLY OUT OF THE COMPUTER HARDWARE BUSINESS. I STOPPED RECOMMENDING IBM PRODUCTS TO CUSTOMERS 25 TEARS AGO, I AM SURPRISED IBM IS STILL IN BUSINESS!!!!!! BUT SINCE THEY ARE REALLY JUST RED HAT, THEY SHOULD CHANGE THEIR NAME TO: "RED HAT LINUX FORMERLY IBM"
Your videos are great. Such a great way to unwind at the end of the day. Calm, clear, interesting storytelling. And I always learn something that makes me more grateful and amazed by the technology I usually take for granted.
it almost reminded me of Xerox PARC and how the hardware ("printer heads" / toner jockey) people couldn't figure out how to market or sell or do anything useful with the platform / software.
I recall that back in the day, the labour-controlled Nottingham (UK) County Council made it a requirement that IBM replace the Conservative Blue panels of their new computer with Labour Red. I suspect that the various shots of red-panelled IBM kit, such as at 13:40, are of that system.
No, I suspect that the color for the System/360 was red for marketing purposes. A lot of the pretty pictures (made for brochures and publications) of various models all have red panels. I think the color for the System/370 was blue or white.
Very interesting. I think it was ultimately unsustainable given the explosion in customers and users coming down the road a decade later. IBM sold you the whole enchilada, complete solution from analysis, design, implementation, testing and training for the price of a computer. Hardly surprising that they dominated the market. The issue arises when your customers are smaller and computers get smaller and cheaper that bundling becomes less economical. Imagine accompany doing that for every PC, tablet and smartphone sold. The bespoke white glove service is only effective for the biggest customers with the deepest pockets. The model would have to evolve eventually due to the widespread adoption of computers.
WRONG!!!!! THE IBM, UNIVAC AND HONEYWELL SOFTWARE LIBRARYS WERE USELESS FOR THE AVERAGE COMPANY!!!! THEY USUALLY CONSISTED OF SPECIALIZED OPERATING SYSTEM PROGRAMS. TSS, MITS(TIME SHARING), DOS, OS MFT, OS!!! AND UTILITIES AND USLESS JUNK!!! WRONG: UNBUNDLING MYTH, UNBUNDLING ONLY HELPED IBM PROFITS!!! UNBUNDLING WAS A 3% DISCOUNT ON "SERVICES YOU NEVER GOT"!!!!! YOU ALWAYS PAID FOR ANY IBM CONSULTING OR PROGRAMMING $250 TO $450 PER HOUR!!!S IF YOU BAUGHT AN IBM MAINFRAME 360/370, YOU GOT A SALEMAN WHO ALWAYS PICKED UP THE PHONE!! AND AN SE(SYSTEM ENGINEER, WHO NEVER PICKED UP THE PHONE OR WOULD NEVER CALL YOU BACK!!!). IBM'S REAL VALUE WAS IN IT'S REPAIR SERVICE. CE(CUSTOMERS ENGINEERS) WERE ALWAYS QUICK TO RESPOND SAME DAY OR NIGHT!!! NO OTHER COMPUTER MFG COULD MATCH IBM'S REPAIR RELIABILITY SERVICE!! THEN IBM DEVALUED THEIR CE'S AND SAID ANYONE COULD FIX A COMPUYTER OVER THE PHONE FROM INDIA, IBM DESTROYED THE IBM BRAND!!! WHEN GRANDMA COULD FIX HER OWN COMPUTER OVER THE PHONE FROM INDIA, WHY PAY IBM PREMIUM PRICES. BUY DELL, HP OR APPLE INSTEAD!!! TODAY THE IBM BRAND IS WORTHLESS. RCA SE'S WERE ALWAYS AVAILABLE(SINCE RCA HAD NO CUSTOMERS!!). IT IS THE SAME TODAY, IF YOU NEED A WEB SITE TO DO CUSTOMER SERVICE, SALES, BILLING YOU WRITE IT OR HIRE A CONSULTANT. DELL, IBM, HP DO NOT GIVE YOU A WEBSTE AND CUSTOM PROGRAMMER, WHEN YOU BUY A $1000 COMPUTER. TO SELL A MACHINE IBM, UNIVAC, HONEYWELL, RCA WOULD SELL YOU A MACHINE AND GIVE YOU A LIST OF CONSULTANTS. THESE REFERALS WERE GREAT!!!, THEN NOT GREAT, THEN VERY POOR!! THEN "NO TANKS, WE DO NOT WANT IBM WORTHLESS REFERALS!! (WE WERE NOT GOING TO LOSE MONEY TO HELP IBM SELL MACHINES!!! ALL HARDWARE MFG NEED A FALL GUY TO SAY BUY THE MACHINE, I'LL DO THE SOFTWARE!!!) AS MACHINES GOT CHEAPER AND CHEAPER THE REFERALS BECAME CHEAPER AND CHEAPER. IBM SALESMEN WOULD SELL A SYSTEM 34 FOR $50,000 AND TELL THE CUSTOMER TO ONLY PAY THE CONSULTANT $5,000 TO WRITE A CUSTOM BILLING PACKAGE. THAT WAS A JOKE!!! THEN IBM STARTED KEEPING ALL THE GOOD LEADS THEM SELF AND FORMED THEIR OWN CONSULTING/OUT SOURCE COMPANY GLOBAL SERVICES, WHICH COMPETED AGINST CONSULTANTS!! CONSULTANTS STARTED RECOMMENDING BETTER CHEAPER MACHINES FROM DELL, HP, APPLE IBM IS NOW JUST ANOTHER LINUX VEBDOR, RED HAT. IBM'S HARDWARE Z SYSTEMS DECLINES 20% PER YEAR. IBM IS ALMOST TOTALLY OUT OF THE COMPUTER HARDWARE BUSINESS. I STOPPED RECOMMENDING IBM PRODUCTS TO CUSTOMERS 25 TEARS AGO, I AM SURPRISED IBM IS STILL IN BUSINESS!!!!!! BUT SINCE THEY ARE REALLY JUST RED HAT, THEY SHOULD CHANGE THEIR NAME TO: "RED HAT LINUX FORMERLY IBM"
Wrong: Every IBM CUSTOMER HAD THEIR OWN PROGRAMMERS AND DATA PROCESSING DEPT OR SMALL GUYS USED A CONSULTING SERVICE( WE CHARGED $50 TO $75 PER HOUR FOR PROGRAMMING, IBM CHARGED $250 HOUR) THAT WAS IN THE 1970'S AND 1980'S!!! IBM FOR $2,000 TO $100,000 PER MONTH RENTAL PROVIDED JUST A MACHINE AND VERY GOOD REPAIR SERVICE. EVERYTHING ELSE COST $250 TO $450 PER HOUR!!!
I think an interesting topic for your channel might be the origin and evolution of the SABRE system for airline bookings. It would intersect well with your focus on the intersections of technology, business, and new norms.
12:12 If tie-in or bundling sales is really illegal, how do car manufacturers get away with it? When buying a car you no longer pick options a-la-carte. Options are increasingly bundled. If you want one option, you end up paying for other bundled options. TV Cable industry famously did the same. My point is... is bundling really illegal? I think there may have been another legal concept involved, just not bundling.
You can order a vehicle exactly as you wish, but now it takes much longer. Dealerships really don't make any more on the sale, so you'll be up against some resistance from a lot of them. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Not until there is a market for installing different software programs/packages that modify the way your car works (hardware). There is the tuning of the engine ECU (mapping?) but so far the car manufacturers haven't complained about it
@@gus473 That's not true at all. Hondas for example only has 3 trim levels too choose from. If you want leather seats, you have to go into a top level and pay for, say, navigation, which you don't need.
The equivalent bundles for cars would be: you have to by fuel from the car company. Not having a custom build car is more like not getting a computer exactly build with the parts *you* want. You don’t want X86 instructions, but ARM ones -> not Intels issue.
Interesting how Apple have the bundling software model, albeit with third party software from Adobe et al., not to mention the app store where they take 30% on everything.
Right? One common theme across these videos is that antitrust people actually did something, and even the most influential of the companies weren't safe from being torn apart if they became too big. Nowadays, the 5 companies do whatever the hell they want, and only ever get some smacks from the EU. We used to be a proper country, goddamn!
@@pmmeurcatpics Apple's market share as a fraction of GDP is probably several times larger than IBM at its peak, I assume that has something to do with it. The success of Apple is now entwined with the success of the U.S. economy. Dissolving a conglomerate has to be a multinational effort because if Apple was "unbundled", foreign electronics makers (Samsung, Huawei, etc) will crush the now deflated Apple.
@@xxlvulkann6743 is this percentage even meaningful when they evade all the taxes anyway? Like, I get that GDP is prestige and all, but beyond that I really doubt that the US benefits from having Apple
@@pmmeurcatpics True. But it's either Apple or a foreign conglomerate. It's a lesser of two evils kind of thing. But I'm just playing devil's advocate, they absolutely can and should regulate and disentangle the walled garden. It would likely trigger a new wave of innovation in the tech industry.
They are the computing equivalent to a Tesla Roadster MK2. Solely announced to distract. In IBM case from different manufacturers, in the latter case more as a stock prize stunt. Same motivation: $$$
Well done presentation, thanks for putting it together. I'm not sure if the Microsoft/IBM PC relationship was part of the decision to drop the case (i.e. you technically didn't need to use PC-DOS on the initial IBM PC, there was technically DR-DOS and Xenix). But anyhow, the case was dropped just a couple months after the release of that IBM PC in late 1981. AT&T was another interesting case - there was a time (late 60's) when they wouldn't even allow people to put answering machines on their lines.
Ibm sales droids had to be legally stopped from mentioning new products if they didn't have firm deli-every dates. They used to tell customers "don't buy that NCR piece, we're coming out with one next month."
Unbundling was inevitable. When you consider the cost savings in being able to choose hardware and software vendors separately, eventually an IBM competitor would have caught on and theb they would be the market leader, not IBM. This is exactly why Windows has stuck around for so long despite being a dumpster fire. Again, we see the containerization revolution begin to eat away at the monolith. Hopefully, this bew age will be freer than the last two.
Not really. Look at Microsoft's annual report and you'll notice that OS really isn't where the bulk of their money is being made. The enterprise market and gaming is.
No, Windows actually became entrenched because hardware manufacturers had to sign up to coercive agreements with Microsoft, practically forbidding them from supplying competing operating system products or making it financially unviable for them to do so.
Sorry this was meant as a reply to the comment addressing the ubiquitous use of IBM Blue on their products.In my time at IBM there were a number of options for the end doors for the ES 9000 series of mainframes. All the basic color palette were available but from my colleagues I was told that for example companies such as John Deere and Yellow Freight had their own custom colors. I worked with several people that were involved with system installs at customer sites. Since installs of these required raised floors and strong temperature control. They were very often installed behind glass walls. I was told that these were frequently used by the customers to show off to their customers of their very advanced data processing equipment in which case IBM Blue was a bragging point.
i was a partner i,n a computer leasing co. The most popular colors were Blue, red, yellow.(360), 370(black front panel + baige, blue, red. WHEN a customer ordered a machine from us or if we refurbished a used machine, we would paint it any color they wanted. Usually people just wanted blue.
The story is that IBM entered the photocopier business in 1970 because they were flooding the government with documents during the anti-trust trial. It resulted in lawsuits from Xerox, claiming that IBM had violated 22 of their patents (despite IBM already being a licensee of many of them for their printers). This might be an interesting thread for you to follow.
In a very real sense, one didn't go to IBM for a computer, but rather for a data processing solution. The typical use case wasn't built on 'I need something to run this software on' or 'I need software that does these functions ', but rather 'I have this data and need to extract this information '.
WRONG!!!!! THE IBM, UNIVAC AND HONEYWELL SOFTWARE LIBRARYS WERE USELESS FOR THE AVERAGE COMPANY!!!! THEY USUALLY CONSISTED OF SPECIALIZED OPERATING SYSTEM PROGRAMS. TSS, MITS(TIME SHARING), DOS, OS MFT, OS!!! AND UTILITIES AND USLESS JUNK!!! WRONG: UNBUNDLING MYTH, UNBUNDLING ONLY HELPED IBM PROFITS!!! UNBUNDLING WAS A 3% DISCOUNT ON "SERVICES YOU NEVER GOT"!!!!! YOU ALWAYS PAID FOR ANY IBM CONSULTING OR PROGRAMMING $250 TO $450 PER HOUR!!!S IF YOU BAUGHT AN IBM MAINFRAME 360/370, YOU GOT A SALEMAN WHO ALWAYS PICKED UP THE PHONE!! AND AN SE(SYSTEM ENGINEER, WHO NEVER PICKED UP THE PHONE OR WOULD NEVER CALL YOU BACK!!!). IBM'S REAL VALUE WAS IN IT'S REPAIR SERVICE. CE(CUSTOMERS ENGINEERS) WERE ALWAYS QUICK TO RESPOND SAME DAY OR NIGHT!!! NO OTHER COMPUTER MFG COULD MATCH IBM'S REPAIR RELIABILITY SERVICE!! THEN IBM DEVALUED THEIR CE'S AND SAID ANYONE COULD FIX A COMPUYTER OVER THE PHONE FROM INDIA, IBM DESTROYED THE IBM BRAND!!! WHEN GRANDMA COULD FIX HER OWN COMPUTER OVER THE PHONE FROM INDIA, WHY PAY IBM PREMIUM PRICES. BUY DELL, HP OR APPLE INSTEAD!!! TODAY THE IBM BRAND IS WORTHLESS. RCA SE'S WERE ALWAYS AVAILABLE(SINCE RCA HAD NO CUSTOMERS!!). IT IS THE SAME TODAY, IF YOU NEED A WEB SITE TO DO CUSTOMER SERVICE, SALES, BILLING YOU WRITE IT OR HIRE A CONSULTANT. DELL, IBM, HP DO NOT GIVE YOU A WEBSTE AND CUSTOM PROGRAMMER, WHEN YOU BUY A $1000 COMPUTER. TO SELL A MACHINE IBM, UNIVAC, HONEYWELL, RCA WOULD SELL YOU A MACHINE AND GIVE YOU A LIST OF CONSULTANTS. THESE REFERALS WERE GREAT!!!, THEN NOT GREAT, THEN VERY POOR!! THEN "NO TANKS, WE DO NOT WANT IBM WORTHLESS REFERALS!! (WE WERE NOT GOING TO LOSE MONEY TO HELP IBM SELL MACHINES!!! ALL HARDWARE MFG NEED A FALL GUY TO SAY BUY THE MACHINE, I'LL DO THE SOFTWARE!!!) AS MACHINES GOT CHEAPER AND CHEAPER THE REFERALS BECAME CHEAPER AND CHEAPER. IBM SALESMEN WOULD SELL A SYSTEM 34 FOR $50,000 AND TELL THE CUSTOMER TO ONLY PAY THE CONSULTANT $5,000 TO WRITE A CUSTOM BILLING PACKAGE. THAT WAS A JOKE!!! THEN IBM STARTED KEEPING ALL THE GOOD LEADS THEM SELF AND FORMED THEIR OWN CONSULTING/OUT SOURCE COMPANY GLOBAL SERVICES, WHICH COMPETED AGINST CONSULTANTS!! CONSULTANTS STARTED RECOMMENDING BETTER CHEAPER MACHINES FROM DELL, HP, APPLE IBM IS NOW JUST ANOTHER LINUX VEBDOR, RED HAT. IBM'S HARDWARE Z SYSTEMS DECLINES 20% PER YEAR. IBM IS ALMOST TOTALLY OUT OF THE COMPUTER HARDWARE BUSINESS. I STOPPED RECOMMENDING IBM PRODUCTS TO CUSTOMERS 25 TEARS AGO, I AM SURPRISED IBM IS STILL IN BUSINESS!!!!!! BUT SINCE THEY ARE REALLY JUST RED HAT, THEY SHOULD CHANGE THEIR NAME TO: "RED HAT LINUX FORMERLY IBM"
My first thought when I saw the title of this video was hardware, with vendors like Amdahl and Hitachi. I was in the software side shortly afterwards. There was a huge market for custom business applications.
WRONG!!!!! THE IBM, UNIVAC AND HONEYWELL SOFTWARE LIBRARYS WERE USELESS FOR THE AVERAGE COMPANY!!!! THEY USUALLY CONSISTED OF SPECIALIZED OPERATING SYSTEM PROGRAMS. TSS, MITS(TIME SHARING), DOS, OS MFT, OS!!! AND UTILITIES AND USLESS JUNK!!! WRONG: UNBUNDLING MYTH, UNBUNDLING ONLY HELPED IBM PROFITS!!! UNBUNDLING WAS A 3% DISCOUNT ON "SERVICES YOU NEVER GOT"!!!!! YOU ALWAYS PAID FOR ANY IBM CONSULTING OR PROGRAMMING $250 TO $450 PER HOUR!!!S IF YOU BAUGHT AN IBM MAINFRAME 360/370, YOU GOT A SALEMAN WHO ALWAYS PICKED UP THE PHONE!! AND AN SE(SYSTEM ENGINEER, WHO NEVER PICKED UP THE PHONE OR WOULD NEVER CALL YOU BACK!!!). IBM'S REAL VALUE WAS IN IT'S REPAIR SERVICE. CE(CUSTOMERS ENGINEERS) WERE ALWAYS QUICK TO RESPOND SAME DAY OR NIGHT!!! NO OTHER COMPUTER MFG COULD MATCH IBM'S REPAIR RELIABILITY SERVICE!! THEN IBM DEVALUED THEIR CE'S AND SAID ANYONE COULD FIX A COMPUYTER OVER THE PHONE FROM INDIA, IBM DESTROYED THE IBM BRAND!!! WHEN GRANDMA COULD FIX HER OWN COMPUTER OVER THE PHONE FROM INDIA, WHY PAY IBM PREMIUM PRICES. BUY DELL, HP OR APPLE INSTEAD!!! TODAY THE IBM BRAND IS WORTHLESS. RCA SE'S WERE ALWAYS AVAILABLE(SINCE RCA HAD NO CUSTOMERS!!). IT IS THE SAME TODAY, IF YOU NEED A WEB SITE TO DO CUSTOMER SERVICE, SALES, BILLING YOU WRITE IT OR HIRE A CONSULTANT. DELL, IBM, HP DO NOT GIVE YOU A WEBSTE AND CUSTOM PROGRAMMER, WHEN YOU BUY A $1000 COMPUTER. TO SELL A MACHINE IBM, UNIVAC, HONEYWELL, RCA WOULD SELL YOU A MACHINE AND GIVE YOU A LIST OF CONSULTANTS. THESE REFERALS WERE GREAT!!!, THEN NOT GREAT, THEN VERY POOR!! THEN "NO TANKS, WE DO NOT WANT IBM WORTHLESS REFERALS!! (WE WERE NOT GOING TO LOSE MONEY TO HELP IBM SELL MACHINES!!! ALL HARDWARE MFG NEED A FALL GUY TO SAY BUY THE MACHINE, I'LL DO THE SOFTWARE!!!) AS MACHINES GOT CHEAPER AND CHEAPER THE REFERALS BECAME CHEAPER AND CHEAPER. IBM SALESMEN WOULD SELL A SYSTEM 34 FOR $50,000 AND TELL THE CUSTOMER TO ONLY PAY THE CONSULTANT $5,000 TO WRITE A CUSTOM BILLING PACKAGE. THAT WAS A JOKE!!! THEN IBM STARTED KEEPING ALL THE GOOD LEADS THEM SELF AND FORMED THEIR OWN CONSULTING/OUT SOURCE COMPANY GLOBAL SERVICES, WHICH COMPETED AGINST CONSULTANTS!! CONSULTANTS STARTED RECOMMENDING BETTER CHEAPER MACHINES FROM DELL, HP, APPLE IBM IS NOW JUST ANOTHER LINUX VEBDOR, RED HAT. IBM'S HARDWARE Z SYSTEMS DECLINES 20% PER YEAR. IBM IS ALMOST TOTALLY OUT OF THE COMPUTER HARDWARE BUSINESS. I STOPPED RECOMMENDING IBM PRODUCTS TO CUSTOMERS 25 TEARS AGO, I AM SURPRISED IBM IS STILL IN BUSINESS!!!!!! BUT SINCE THEY ARE REALLY JUST RED HAT, THEY SHOULD CHANGE THEIR NAME TO: "RED HAT LINUX FORMERLY IBM"
I think the "Software" meant Application Software, not the bootloader nor the Operating System. Case in point, in 1972 System/370 has the VM/CMS, while "pure" O.S. is MVS. Per Wikipedia, seems there's open sourced version of VM/CMS as well as paid/supported version. I am not sure. However, it's not in the instruction-set public knowledge era, so there is no possibility of having VMware nor Openstack. :(
Not sure what you mean by "instruction-set public knowledge era", but the Wikipedia article for IBM System/370 notes that GCC could target the 370 architecture, and the current release still supports the 390 and zSeries architectures. And, of course, Linux has run on the 390 and zSeries as an IBM-supported product. But it seems that Linux (and potentially other) systems can only run as guests in the hypervisor environment (z/VM), with customers unable to replace the hypervisor with something else. You can run emulators of zSeries machines such as Hercules on other hardware, but you then need to acquire a suitable operating environment to run in the emulated machine. (This is where IBM refuses to license newer products to run in such emulators, leading to a complaint being brought against IBM in the EU that was later dismissed.) I imagine you could make something like Linux, or maybe a Free Software hypervisor, run at the appropriate level in such emulators, but since such a product would never get a chance to run on a real zSeries machine, and since you could just run such a hypervisor on other hardware instead, I guess it isn't significantly interesting to do. That said, I imagine that people have looked into it, anyway.
@@paul_boddie I don't know in 1972, IBM would have released the System 370 instruction set documentation, especially hypervisor related for external software firm development purpose. I am guessing it's not, since other Compute hardware companies can learn and/or imitate.
@@ccshello1 I guess Amdahl implemented the architecture and must have known the details of it, judging from the Amdahl 470/6 reference manual (from 1973) that I just found. I also found the "System/370 Extended Architecture Reference Summary" (from 1989, but based on earlier publications dating back to 1984, which one might expect since it is about ESA/370, not plain System/370) that describes details of the instruction set. But without looking further, I don't really know. I only wanted to point out that the ISA seems reasonably well understood to the extent that emulators need VM implementations to be commercially useful and must therefore provide all the necessary hypervisor support. Again, this is without digging deeper into these products.
Just think about Linus Torwalds. He had some Intel documents on 386 architecture, like you would have had in the 70s for a /370, but he was also able to buy the bare silicone to try it out. With rented time on a mainframe you can’t debug an os running on the bare hardware. At least not w/o simulation software, that would need to know how the software works and how to find out. With 386 you needed a 386sx pc in 1990 and a 32bit version of GCC running in a DIS-extender. Put a bootloader on a floppy and let it load a kernel that switched to 32-bit mode and read keyboard and write to screen. How I know? I did it, while someone in Finnland did the same. But as I rarely got some of my private projects done, but he did, I now use his kernel since at least 20y. Back to big iron: it’s just to un-affordable to create an OS without having a (big) business behind.
@@fromgermany271 Naturally, if you lower the barriers to entry, you get a lot more people doing interesting things. That said, with regard to big iron operating systems, the story about Amdahl's UTS is informative and also slightly amusing, its origins involving students deciding that they would simply have a go at porting Unix to System/370. Take a look at the Wikipedia article for Amdahl UTS and follow the reference to Tom Lyons' blog where he tells the story.
you should have started with the 360 architecture. unlike the seven dwarfs programs written on 360 mdl 20 could run basically as is on another mdl 20 or 60. hence the PCMs, 3rd party system software etc with unbundling in the late 60s.
FYI: In 1956 IBM and United shoe signed consent decrees to drop Monoply charges!! 1956 to 1970 IBM could NOT COPYRIGHT manual and software and had to give the Operating System to anyone who ask for it!! That is how oneywell, RCA Amdal, nas, fujitsu and the Hercules emulator(free) got the source coder for IBM OS/MVT, DOS, TOS. 1970 WAS THE FIRST YEAR THAT IBM COULD CHARGE FOR THE OPERATING SYSTEM!!! the operating system became closed source and very expensive. it was a very big price increase. If IBM did your programming for free why did CHASE BANK have 600 programmers 2500 employees in its Data Processing Dept. This ideo is nonesence!!
Well it was mostly wasn't meant to be exciting Kind of like being an EMT if things get exciting it means bad things are happening to people. Examples would be the SAGE air defense system, SABRE system for the airlines and the Air Traffic Control systems
@@21stcenturyscots Sage was for detecting incoming missile attacks during the Cold War. Sabre was a centralized realtime system for making airline ticketing reservations. It was the first of it's kind and a precursor of all the systems that we take for granted today.
Imagine going back to the 60s and telling these guys that one of the biggest markets in consumer pc's would be games lol. They'd picture some 10 pixel screen and tell you to lay off the reefer.
What I always wonder is why IBM is still around, and still somehow makes billions per year despite having lost both the desktop PC market and the software market. I'd love a vid going into detail about what the frick they actually do these days. I assume part of their lifeline always has been DARPA/NASA other related blackbox projects for US gov.
Stock market, banking, and casino systems. Plus patents. And they recently teleported a particle. Or it's like McDonalds - they got money in real estate just by being so early to get buildings that are now in prime locations.
Dave's Garage did a great overview on their z16. Still very much relevant today for a lot of corporations you would imaging would use them (Apple's stores for a start!). th-cam.com/video/ouAG4vXFORc/w-d-xo.html
WRONG!!!!! THE IBM, UNIVAC AND HONEYWELL SOFTWARE LIBRARYS WERE USELESS FOR THE AVERAGE COMPANY!!!! THEY USUALLY CONSISTED OF SPECIALIZED OPERATING SYSTEM PROGRAMS. TSS, MITS(TIME SHARING), DOS, OS MFT, OS!!! AND UTILITIES AND USLESS JUNK!!! WRONG: UNBUNDLING MYTH, UNBUNDLING ONLY HELPED IBM PROFITS!!! UNBUNDLING WAS A 3% DISCOUNT ON "SERVICES YOU NEVER GOT"!!!!! YOU ALWAYS PAID FOR ANY IBM CONSULTING OR PROGRAMMING $250 TO $450 PER HOUR!!!S IF YOU BAUGHT AN IBM MAINFRAME 360/370, YOU GOT A SALEMAN WHO ALWAYS PICKED UP THE PHONE!! AND AN SE(SYSTEM ENGINEER, WHO NEVER PICKED UP THE PHONE OR WOULD NEVER CALL YOU BACK!!!). IBM'S REAL VALUE WAS IN IT'S REPAIR SERVICE. CE(CUSTOMERS ENGINEERS) WERE ALWAYS QUICK TO RESPOND SAME DAY OR NIGHT!!! NO OTHER COMPUTER MFG COULD MATCH IBM'S REPAIR RELIABILITY SERVICE!! THEN IBM DEVALUED THEIR CE'S AND SAID ANYONE COULD FIX A COMPUYTER OVER THE PHONE FROM INDIA, IBM DESTROYED THE IBM BRAND!!! WHEN GRANDMA COULD FIX HER OWN COMPUTER OVER THE PHONE FROM INDIA, WHY PAY IBM PREMIUM PRICES. BUY DELL, HP OR APPLE INSTEAD!!! TODAY THE IBM BRAND IS WORTHLESS. RCA SE'S WERE ALWAYS AVAILABLE(SINCE RCA HAD NO CUSTOMERS!!). IT IS THE SAME TODAY, IF YOU NEED A WEB SITE TO DO CUSTOMER SERVICE, SALES, BILLING YOU WRITE IT OR HIRE A CONSULTANT. DELL, IBM, HP DO NOT GIVE YOU A WEBSTE AND CUSTOM PROGRAMMER, WHEN YOU BUY A $1000 COMPUTER. TO SELL A MACHINE IBM, UNIVAC, HONEYWELL, RCA WOULD SELL YOU A MACHINE AND GIVE YOU A LIST OF CONSULTANTS. THESE REFERALS WERE GREAT!!!, THEN NOT GREAT, THEN VERY POOR!! THEN "NO TANKS, WE DO NOT WANT IBM WORTHLESS REFERALS!! (WE WERE NOT GOING TO LOSE MONEY TO HELP IBM SELL MACHINES!!! ALL HARDWARE MFG NEED A FALL GUY TO SAY BUY THE MACHINE, I'LL DO THE SOFTWARE!!!) AS MACHINES GOT CHEAPER AND CHEAPER THE REFERALS BECAME CHEAPER AND CHEAPER. IBM SALESMEN WOULD SELL A SYSTEM 34 FOR $50,000 AND TELL THE CUSTOMER TO ONLY PAY THE CONSULTANT $5,000 TO WRITE A CUSTOM BILLING PACKAGE. THAT WAS A JOKE!!! THEN IBM STARTED KEEPING ALL THE GOOD LEADS THEM SELF AND FORMED THEIR OWN CONSULTING/OUT SOURCE COMPANY GLOBAL SERVICES, WHICH COMPETED AGINST CONSULTANTS!! CONSULTANTS STARTED RECOMMENDING BETTER CHEAPER MACHINES FROM DELL, HP, APPLE IBM IS NOW JUST ANOTHER LINUX VEBDOR, RED HAT. IBM'S HARDWARE Z SYSTEMS DECLINES 20% PER YEAR. IBM IS ALMOST TOTALLY OUT OF THE COMPUTER HARDWARE BUSINESS. I STOPPED RECOMMENDING IBM PRODUCTS TO CUSTOMERS 25 TEARS AGO, I AM SURPRISED IBM IS STILL IN BUSINESS!!!!!! BUT SINCE THEY ARE REALLY JUST RED HAT, THEY SHOULD CHANGE THEIR NAME TO: "RED HAT LINUX FORMERLY IBM"
Wrong: Every IBM CUSTOMER HAD THEIR OWN PROGRAMMERS AND DATA PROCESSING DEPT OR SMALL GUYS USED A CONSULTING SERVICE( WE CHARGED $50 TO $75 PER HOUR FOR PROGRAMMING, IBM CHARGED $250 HOUR) THAT WAS IN THE 1970'S AND 1980'S!!! IBM FOR $2,000 TO $100,000 PER MONTH RENTAL PROVIDED JUST A MACHINE AND VERY GOOD REPAIR SERVICE. EVERYTHING ELSE COST $250 TO $450 PER HOUR!!!
IBM DESTROYED IT'S BRAND: IBM'S Has always touted RELIABILITY THAT WAS IT'S UNIQUE FEATURE(it had 100 times the number of repair people than RCA, UNIVAC, HP, hp, DEC). I was partner in a leasing company(we had IBM and RCA, DEC computers). I could fix any IBM computer in 3 hours(iBM trouble shooting system was vastly superior to other mfg's). The RCA's took 1 to 3 days(you had to trace miles of wiring). OTHER MFG REALLY DID NOT CARE ABOUT RELIABILITY OR MEAN REPAIR TIMES(THEY COULD HAVE COPIED IBM'S REPAIR METHODS!!!. THEN IBM DEVALUED THEIR BRAND AND SERVICE BY SAYING ANYONE COULD FIX THEIR COMPUTERS OVER THE PHONE FROM INDIA!!!! DELL, HP AND EVERYONE ELSE HAD DO IT YOURSELF REPAIR SERVICE FROM INDIA, SO WHY WOULD ANYONE PAY PREMIUM IBM PRICES??????????????????????
A lot of it comes for free with an app store or your computer too. Also, that price simply reflects costs at the time. These days there are code monkeys in turdworld states that will code up aps for peanuts so that the country can pretend they have technology
ENIAC wasn't programmed by 6 women as in they came up with the script, it was designed by 9 men and given to 6 women to implement. It's no different a secretary transcribing a memo.
WRONG: Operating a 0) generation IBM tab machines 1)eniac tubE computers 3) 1401 transistor. RCA 301computers were difficult binary operations!!!!! NOT SECRETARIAL WORK!!! Type writers to enter commands did not happen till the mid 1960's. You had to think in binary!!!
@@edmartin6245 WRONG: They were given commands and transcribed them into the computers. The commands were written by men and inputted by women. Get over yourself
There also was another source of the software: books. From 1960-s to 1990-s there were many books with source code listings. These required typing, but many programs were small. This worked well in science. An author of a book got his/her money from the publisher, it was independent from hardware makers and kinda worked. All ended with the Internet of course.
I remember testing out programs from computer magazines in the 80s. Seems comical now
Only 300,000 pages to go!
@@bakedbeings ha! you couldn't enter many pages of code before you were out of memory back then
@@danielsanichiban To top it off, the C64 forgot the whole thing when you switched it off.
What people don't realize is that until the tech boom coding was not seen as a prestigious job, it was a technical vocation only a handful of people even knew the necessity of. That's why you see so many women coding early computers, because the men were typically building them and running the experiments on them.
Besides the Ada Lovelace story I had no idea about this until now. I've seen a lot of people, myself included, buy into the thought that women biologically lack skill in logic and mathematics, and it's incredible to me that most early programming was done by women. I knew I was wrong but not by so much!
WRONG: SINCE 1965 EVERY SCHOOL AND COLLEGE AND TECH SCHOOL IN THE USA PUSHED
PROGRAMMING AS A GLAMOUR CAREER!!! WITH HIGH PAY!!
I HAVE TRAINED HUNDREDS OF BOTH MEN AND WOMEN WHEN I WORKED IN COLLEGES,
TECH SCHOOLS AND CONSULTING!!! MAJORITY OF PROGRAMMERS WERE MEN 2/3
1/3 WOMEN AND MINORITIES. EVERONE HAS TO TAKE A PROGRAMMING
COURSE IN COLLEGE. THERE IS ALWAYS NEW TECHNOLOGY AND NEW DEMAND FOR
PROGRAMMERS. IT IS HARD WORK AND MANY PEOPLE AFTER ONE PROGRAMMING COURSE
DECIDE IT IS NOT FOR THEM AND GO INTO OTHER PROFESSIONS OTHERS LIKE THE
CHALLENGE AND ENTER THE FIELD!!
PEOPE AT A PARTY WERE ALWAYS IMPRESSED WHEN I SAID i TEACH COMPUTER PROGRAMMING"
When you think of all the different software functions inside an office bundle... and considering the majority of us never use many of those functions, it's strange to think of the history of office software bundles. Back then, it would have seemed inconceivable to write all that useful code, just to bundle it with a suite anyone can afford (free in some cases)
Seems throughout history, regardless of product, "free" isn't free. Free is just a tease for the reality.
Office suites were not free back in the day, microsoft once made half of their profits off office, never windows
There was a shift in corporate strategy from hardware-brained profit maximization to software-brained. The "old" guard don't get it and thus try protect the wrong things. I think now the pendulum has swung too far to everything as a service.
@@brodriguez11000i learned decades ago, i can't afford free, lol!
@@sunnohhyeah, i think open source had a lot to do with bringing down prices...
This is God sent content bro
Never stop this
Fortran dominant in the 1950's? Man it was dominant until the 90's for engineering and science and its libraries are still in wide use - translated to other languages or linked to programs written in other languages. Still see people using it directly.
FORTRAN is alive and well. In some cases is the bedrock upon which many large enterprises run.
Yeah, ackchyoollie quite a few algebra libraries for languages like Java use wrappers for LAPack and BLAS that are written in Fortran. Also, as a small kid in the pre-collapse soviet union, I've had a kid's book about computers where one of the protagonists was called Prof. Fortran.
The core math and statistics libraries used in R are from the "ancient ones" thoroughly
The core math and statistics components used in R are from the 60+ year old thoroughly debugged FORTRAN libraries.
WRONG: ENGINEERS AND MATH TEACHERS AND MATH PROF PREFER TRADITIONAL MATH CALCULUS(16TH CENTURY MATH) WHICH IS DONE USING ALGEBRA, CALULUS BY HAND.
COMPUTERS USE STATISTICS + ALGEBRA(FORTRAN IS JUST ALGEBRA). COMPUTERS
DO NOT USE CALCULUS!!! INSTEAD STATISTICAL PROGRAMMING LANGUES: R, SPSS,
SAS.
ENGINEERS AVOID STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY METHODS!!!
THEY USUALLY JUST FALL BACK ON CALCULUS +ALGEBRA + DIFF EQUATION THAT
DO NOT REQUIRE COMPUTER PROGRAMMING!!(DONE BY HAND + HEAD).
I TAUGHT MYSELF FORTRAN WHEN I WAS 14!! I ONLY USED FORTAN ONCE IN
50 YEARS OF PROGRAMMING!!! COBOL, ASSEMBLER, C, C++, C#, PYTHON, HTML
MYSQL, SQL ARE THE PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES USED TODAY.
Rolls Royce does almost exactly the same as IBM did back in the old days. The customer pays for each hour they run the engine and the manufacturer pays for all servicing so the "owner" of the engine only has variable costs. IBM still controlled the market in servicing. You had to be a registered engineer to get the key to it. One of my old staff used to do it and explained all of this back in the early 90s.
and now, this exactly same pricing model is going still wild on AWS and other cloud computing platforms...
@@MIO9_sh And in some ways the cloud is just a return of leased processing and in some cases for the same reasons as long ago, If you are a smallish firm doing say AI research you cannot afford the hardware, staff and power needs for that kind of processing. But for a nominal fee you can use Amazon's compute resources that are already built. In previous times it was similar, many firms were too small to afford the hardware needed to do their processing jobs, it wasnt AI but it was still processing.
FinOps - A whole business model for managing the economics of cloud services.
Cisco released an Expert series certification track for their licensing. You can be a Cisco Certified Licensing Expert and the test is really hard!
@@MIO9_sh yes, and in my opinion it's great. Modern hourly billing and the associated reporting/analysis capabilities encourage tech groups to operate with continual awareness of operational cost, and just as importantly it also allows capacity for short-lived experiments that was previously a lot more expensive to acquire.
I don't ever want to go back to the common model for the first half of my career where costs had to be tracked across far more vendors (rented rack space, power, enclosures, external connectivity, networking, storage, maybe separate storage networking, compute, virtualization, ...) and it was much harder to attribute cost to customers or projects. You could absolutely still do it, but the labour intensity of doing so was absurd, and very few people in an org had access to all of the cost data. Extremely hard to assess and track cost of providing a service vs what a customer (external or internal) was billed for their service. Maybe other people had better experiences but this was mine, and I haven't heard otherwise from my industry peers.
Buying the engine vs. renting the engine goes to different areas of the P&L sheet. It also saves the user from specializing in something that is not his core business.
Finally RR-engines are talking constantly to their homebase, which in some cases avoided crashes, because the pilots where warned by remote tecsnishans about upcoming issues during the flights. Lastly in some cases RR knew where planes where heading to even if no other tracking was available.
The fact "CUC" was always specifically spelt out every time is really funny to me
I see what you did there. 👍🙂👍
How to go from being THEE Tech Company to being a consulting agency.
Going bancrupt, or near bancrupt, closing warehouse, fire staff - IDK
the early years of computers were interesting. a lot of things we take for granted now was not seen as normal. i thought 80s computers were strange because there was more than just mac and pc. but in this era it was like every computer was its own thing and you had a lot of unusual designs as people were trying to figure out the best way forward .
I was a mainframe computer operator in the late 70s and early 80s. This report brings back great memories of fun times in the machine room. I once worked at a company that had a System/360, being replaced by a Hewlett-Packard minicomputer. It was amazing to watch the system operate. Server farms have no such charm.
And here I thought it was the development of the C programming language and/or Unix which freed the software industry, allowing programs to be written independently of whatever hardware a customer would want them to run on. Those followed very shortly afterward: Unix in 1969, and C in 1972, from Bell Labs.
This and the nostalgic corporate images of 60’s computer rooms made me think of lowly C.C. "Bud" Baxter working at his Insurance Company juggling the use of “The Apartment”. 😄
Wow that not something I expected to be thinking about from an IBM video. Great 1960s movie: The apartment
Once again, another excellent video covering a topic that should be told but wasn’t. Great stuff.
SAP had the same result: companies adapted their business processes to their "software".
SAP is a monster.
Nowadays, whoever has to build the structure of a work organisation, take the functions (and job descriptions) from a SAP flowchart, and build the workplace accordingly. Just saying...
Good grief SAP SUCKS, like I get it, it probably possible to set it up in a way that's easier to navigate, and I understand the need for backwards compatibility, but the amount of time and money wasted fighting that monstrosity is insane
Yes SAP is a monster and a pain. The upside is that it forces structure and order into what otherwise would be a flying circus of monkeys chasing headless chickens with waffle bats. 🙂
I don't think any companies changed their business process to 'adapted' themselves to suit SAP.
I know that a business will change it's processes, procedures, or protocols in order to suit SAP.
Would love to see a history of SAP video. I’ve use SAP PEO, but there’s a whole lineage to just that one piece
And now with extortion (a.k.a. "subscription") based software we get to pay for it over and over again!
That was IBMs strength. Top of the line customer service. Above and beyond other computer manufacturers. Even if a Burroughs, or CDC computer was more powerful, people still tended to go to IBM, because of IBM's hand holding.
it was. thank you, come again.
...and then dec showed up and kicked everybody's ass!
WRONG!!!!! THE IBM, UNIVAC AND HONEYWELL SOFTWARE LIBRARYS WERE USELESS FOR THE AVERAGE
COMPANY!!!! THEY USUALLY CONSISTED OF SPECIALIZED OPERATING SYSTEM PROGRAMS.
TSS, MITS(TIME SHARING), DOS, OS MFT, OS!!! AND UTILITIES AND USLESS JUNK!!!
WRONG: UNBUNDLING MYTH, UNBUNDLING ONLY HELPED IBM PROFITS!!!
UNBUNDLING WAS A 3% DISCOUNT ON "SERVICES YOU NEVER GOT"!!!!!
YOU ALWAYS PAID FOR ANY IBM CONSULTING OR PROGRAMMING $250 TO $450 PER HOUR!!!S
IF YOU BAUGHT AN IBM MAINFRAME 360/370, YOU GOT A SALEMAN WHO ALWAYS PICKED UP
THE PHONE!! AND AN SE(SYSTEM ENGINEER, WHO NEVER PICKED UP THE PHONE OR
WOULD NEVER CALL YOU BACK!!!).
IBM'S REAL VALUE WAS IN IT'S REPAIR SERVICE. CE(CUSTOMERS ENGINEERS)
WERE ALWAYS QUICK TO RESPOND SAME DAY OR NIGHT!!!
NO OTHER COMPUTER MFG COULD MATCH IBM'S REPAIR RELIABILITY SERVICE!!
THEN IBM DEVALUED THEIR CE'S AND SAID ANYONE COULD FIX A COMPUYTER
OVER THE PHONE FROM INDIA, IBM DESTROYED THE IBM BRAND!!!
WHEN GRANDMA COULD FIX HER OWN COMPUTER OVER THE PHONE FROM INDIA,
WHY PAY IBM PREMIUM PRICES. BUY DELL, HP OR APPLE INSTEAD!!!
TODAY THE IBM BRAND IS WORTHLESS.
RCA SE'S WERE ALWAYS AVAILABLE(SINCE RCA HAD NO CUSTOMERS!!).
IT IS THE SAME TODAY, IF YOU NEED A WEB SITE TO DO CUSTOMER SERVICE, SALES, BILLING YOU
WRITE IT OR HIRE A CONSULTANT. DELL, IBM, HP DO NOT GIVE YOU A WEBSTE AND CUSTOM PROGRAMMER,
WHEN YOU BUY A $1000 COMPUTER.
TO SELL A MACHINE IBM, UNIVAC, HONEYWELL, RCA WOULD SELL YOU A MACHINE AND GIVE YOU A LIST
OF CONSULTANTS. THESE REFERALS WERE GREAT!!!, THEN NOT GREAT, THEN VERY POOR!!
THEN "NO TANKS, WE DO NOT WANT IBM WORTHLESS REFERALS!!
(WE WERE NOT GOING TO LOSE MONEY TO HELP IBM SELL MACHINES!!! ALL HARDWARE MFG NEED
A FALL GUY TO SAY BUY THE MACHINE, I'LL DO THE SOFTWARE!!!)
AS MACHINES GOT CHEAPER AND CHEAPER THE REFERALS BECAME CHEAPER AND CHEAPER.
IBM SALESMEN WOULD SELL A SYSTEM 34 FOR $50,000 AND TELL THE CUSTOMER TO ONLY
PAY THE CONSULTANT $5,000 TO WRITE A CUSTOM BILLING PACKAGE. THAT WAS A JOKE!!!
THEN IBM STARTED KEEPING ALL THE GOOD LEADS THEM SELF AND FORMED THEIR OWN
CONSULTING/OUT SOURCE COMPANY GLOBAL SERVICES, WHICH COMPETED AGINST CONSULTANTS!!
CONSULTANTS STARTED RECOMMENDING BETTER CHEAPER MACHINES FROM DELL, HP, APPLE
IBM IS NOW JUST ANOTHER LINUX VEBDOR, RED HAT. IBM'S HARDWARE Z SYSTEMS DECLINES 20%
PER YEAR. IBM IS ALMOST TOTALLY OUT OF THE COMPUTER HARDWARE BUSINESS.
I STOPPED RECOMMENDING IBM PRODUCTS TO CUSTOMERS 25 TEARS AGO, I AM SURPRISED
IBM IS STILL IN BUSINESS!!!!!!
BUT SINCE THEY ARE REALLY JUST RED HAT, THEY SHOULD CHANGE THEIR NAME TO:
"RED HAT LINUX FORMERLY IBM"
Yay new asianonemtry
Your videos are great. Such a great way to unwind at the end of the day. Calm, clear, interesting storytelling. And I always learn something that makes me more grateful and amazed by the technology I usually take for granted.
"Unbundle" is what Lister shouts in Red Dwarf.
UnRumble.
It was, but I couldn't make the joke if I'd repeated it correctly.@@tracktornator
Asianometry did an excellent job. I expect to appreciate the technology and the computer I use more and more like never before.
Reread IBM's strategy but think "Apple Computer"
Hardeehar
The Walled Garden
it almost reminded me of Xerox PARC and how the hardware ("printer heads" / toner jockey) people couldn't figure out how to market or sell or do anything useful with the platform / software.
I recall that back in the day, the labour-controlled Nottingham (UK) County Council made it a requirement that IBM replace the Conservative Blue panels of their new computer with Labour Red.
I suspect that the various shots of red-panelled IBM kit, such as at 13:40, are of that system.
No, I suspect that the color for the System/360 was red for marketing purposes. A lot of the pretty pictures (made for brochures and publications) of various models all have red panels. I think the color for the System/370 was blue or white.
Very interesting. I think it was ultimately unsustainable given the explosion in customers and users coming down the road a decade later.
IBM sold you the whole enchilada, complete solution from analysis, design, implementation, testing and training for the price of a computer. Hardly surprising that they dominated the market. The issue arises when your customers are smaller and computers get smaller and cheaper that bundling becomes less economical. Imagine accompany doing that for every PC, tablet and smartphone sold. The bespoke white glove service is only effective for the biggest customers with the deepest pockets. The model would have to evolve eventually due to the widespread adoption of computers.
Didn't "unbundle" the OS.
DEC were instrumental in popularising computer-based solutions for smaller organisations & reducing the cost of "ownership" & the ongoing costs
WRONG!!!!! THE IBM, UNIVAC AND HONEYWELL SOFTWARE LIBRARYS WERE USELESS FOR THE AVERAGE
COMPANY!!!! THEY USUALLY CONSISTED OF SPECIALIZED OPERATING SYSTEM PROGRAMS.
TSS, MITS(TIME SHARING), DOS, OS MFT, OS!!! AND UTILITIES AND USLESS JUNK!!!
WRONG: UNBUNDLING MYTH, UNBUNDLING ONLY HELPED IBM PROFITS!!!
UNBUNDLING WAS A 3% DISCOUNT ON "SERVICES YOU NEVER GOT"!!!!!
YOU ALWAYS PAID FOR ANY IBM CONSULTING OR PROGRAMMING $250 TO $450 PER HOUR!!!S
IF YOU BAUGHT AN IBM MAINFRAME 360/370, YOU GOT A SALEMAN WHO ALWAYS PICKED UP
THE PHONE!! AND AN SE(SYSTEM ENGINEER, WHO NEVER PICKED UP THE PHONE OR
WOULD NEVER CALL YOU BACK!!!).
IBM'S REAL VALUE WAS IN IT'S REPAIR SERVICE. CE(CUSTOMERS ENGINEERS)
WERE ALWAYS QUICK TO RESPOND SAME DAY OR NIGHT!!!
NO OTHER COMPUTER MFG COULD MATCH IBM'S REPAIR RELIABILITY SERVICE!!
THEN IBM DEVALUED THEIR CE'S AND SAID ANYONE COULD FIX A COMPUYTER
OVER THE PHONE FROM INDIA, IBM DESTROYED THE IBM BRAND!!!
WHEN GRANDMA COULD FIX HER OWN COMPUTER OVER THE PHONE FROM INDIA,
WHY PAY IBM PREMIUM PRICES. BUY DELL, HP OR APPLE INSTEAD!!!
TODAY THE IBM BRAND IS WORTHLESS.
RCA SE'S WERE ALWAYS AVAILABLE(SINCE RCA HAD NO CUSTOMERS!!).
IT IS THE SAME TODAY, IF YOU NEED A WEB SITE TO DO CUSTOMER SERVICE, SALES, BILLING YOU
WRITE IT OR HIRE A CONSULTANT. DELL, IBM, HP DO NOT GIVE YOU A WEBSTE AND CUSTOM PROGRAMMER,
WHEN YOU BUY A $1000 COMPUTER.
TO SELL A MACHINE IBM, UNIVAC, HONEYWELL, RCA WOULD SELL YOU A MACHINE AND GIVE YOU A LIST
OF CONSULTANTS. THESE REFERALS WERE GREAT!!!, THEN NOT GREAT, THEN VERY POOR!!
THEN "NO TANKS, WE DO NOT WANT IBM WORTHLESS REFERALS!!
(WE WERE NOT GOING TO LOSE MONEY TO HELP IBM SELL MACHINES!!! ALL HARDWARE MFG NEED
A FALL GUY TO SAY BUY THE MACHINE, I'LL DO THE SOFTWARE!!!)
AS MACHINES GOT CHEAPER AND CHEAPER THE REFERALS BECAME CHEAPER AND CHEAPER.
IBM SALESMEN WOULD SELL A SYSTEM 34 FOR $50,000 AND TELL THE CUSTOMER TO ONLY
PAY THE CONSULTANT $5,000 TO WRITE A CUSTOM BILLING PACKAGE. THAT WAS A JOKE!!!
THEN IBM STARTED KEEPING ALL THE GOOD LEADS THEM SELF AND FORMED THEIR OWN
CONSULTING/OUT SOURCE COMPANY GLOBAL SERVICES, WHICH COMPETED AGINST CONSULTANTS!!
CONSULTANTS STARTED RECOMMENDING BETTER CHEAPER MACHINES FROM DELL, HP, APPLE
IBM IS NOW JUST ANOTHER LINUX VEBDOR, RED HAT. IBM'S HARDWARE Z SYSTEMS DECLINES 20%
PER YEAR. IBM IS ALMOST TOTALLY OUT OF THE COMPUTER HARDWARE BUSINESS.
I STOPPED RECOMMENDING IBM PRODUCTS TO CUSTOMERS 25 TEARS AGO, I AM SURPRISED
IBM IS STILL IN BUSINESS!!!!!!
BUT SINCE THEY ARE REALLY JUST RED HAT, THEY SHOULD CHANGE THEIR NAME TO:
"RED HAT LINUX FORMERLY IBM"
Wrong: Every IBM CUSTOMER HAD THEIR OWN PROGRAMMERS AND DATA PROCESSING DEPT OR SMALL
GUYS USED A CONSULTING SERVICE( WE CHARGED $50 TO $75 PER HOUR FOR PROGRAMMING, IBM CHARGED $250 HOUR) THAT WAS IN THE 1970'S AND 1980'S!!!
IBM FOR $2,000 TO $100,000 PER MONTH RENTAL PROVIDED JUST A MACHINE AND VERY GOOD REPAIR SERVICE. EVERYTHING ELSE COST $250 TO $450 PER HOUR!!!
Love this channel, thank you for your uploads.
This is apt considering I'm listening to the "Advent of Computing" podcast and he's been covering development of the System 360.
are you naked and happy, right now?
I think an interesting topic for your channel might be the origin and evolution of the SABRE system for airline bookings. It would intersect well with your focus on the intersections of technology, business, and new norms.
This is truly one of the best TH-cam channels on here. Thank you so much for this great content you put together.
You're a really good storyteller. Informative. Thanks.
Video idea: Ubisoft Singapore and the Skull&Bones governmental subsidies situation
12:12 If tie-in or bundling sales is really illegal, how do car manufacturers get away with it?
When buying a car you no longer pick options a-la-carte. Options are increasingly bundled. If you want one option, you end up paying for other bundled options.
TV Cable industry famously did the same.
My point is... is bundling really illegal? I think there may have been another legal concept involved, just not bundling.
You can order a vehicle exactly as you wish, but now it takes much longer. Dealerships really don't make any more on the sale, so you'll be up against some resistance from a lot of them. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It's only illegal if you don't pay enough lobby money.
Not until there is a market for installing different software programs/packages that modify the way your car works (hardware). There is the tuning of the engine ECU (mapping?) but so far the car manufacturers haven't complained about it
@@gus473
That's not true at all. Hondas for example only has 3 trim levels too choose from. If you want leather seats, you have to go into a top level and pay for, say, navigation, which you don't need.
The equivalent bundles for cars would be: you have to by fuel from the car company. Not having a custom build car is more like not getting a computer exactly build with the parts *you* want. You don’t want X86 instructions, but ARM ones -> not Intels issue.
Interesting how Apple have the bundling software model, albeit with third party software from Adobe et al., not to mention the app store where they take 30% on everything.
Right? One common theme across these videos is that antitrust people actually did something, and even the most influential of the companies weren't safe from being torn apart if they became too big. Nowadays, the 5 companies do whatever the hell they want, and only ever get some smacks from the EU. We used to be a proper country, goddamn!
@@pmmeurcatpics Apple's market share as a fraction of GDP is probably several times larger than IBM at its peak, I assume that has something to do with it. The success of Apple is now entwined with the success of the U.S. economy. Dissolving a conglomerate has to be a multinational effort because if Apple was "unbundled", foreign electronics makers (Samsung, Huawei, etc) will crush the now deflated Apple.
@@xxlvulkann6743 is this percentage even meaningful when they evade all the taxes anyway? Like, I get that GDP is prestige and all, but beyond that I really doubt that the US benefits from having Apple
@@pmmeurcatpics True. But it's either Apple or a foreign conglomerate. It's a lesser of two evils kind of thing. But I'm just playing devil's advocate, they absolutely can and should regulate and disentangle the walled garden. It would likely trigger a new wave of innovation in the tech industry.
13:20 what are ghost computers?
They are the computing equivalent to a Tesla Roadster MK2. Solely announced to distract. In IBM case from different manufacturers, in the latter case more as a stock prize stunt. Same motivation: $$$
Well done presentation, thanks for putting it together. I'm not sure if the Microsoft/IBM PC relationship was part of the decision to drop the case (i.e. you technically didn't need to use PC-DOS on the initial IBM PC, there was technically DR-DOS and Xenix). But anyhow, the case was dropped just a couple months after the release of that IBM PC in late 1981. AT&T was another interesting case - there was a time (late 60's) when they wouldn't even allow people to put answering machines on their lines.
Ibm sales droids had to be legally stopped from mentioning new products if they didn't have firm deli-every dates. They used to tell customers "don't buy that NCR piece, we're coming out with one next month."
I find the early history of computers so fascinating. It's interesting to see how things have changed in the industry.
Unbundling was inevitable. When you consider the cost savings in being able to choose hardware and software vendors separately, eventually an IBM competitor would have caught on and theb they would be the market leader, not IBM.
This is exactly why Windows has stuck around for so long despite being a dumpster fire. Again, we see the containerization revolution begin to eat away at the monolith. Hopefully, this bew age will be freer than the last two.
Not really. Look at Microsoft's annual report and you'll notice that OS really isn't where the bulk of their money is being made. The enterprise market and gaming is.
No, Windows actually became entrenched because hardware manufacturers had to sign up to coercive agreements with Microsoft, practically forbidding them from supplying competing operating system products or making it financially unviable for them to do so.
Sorry this was meant as a reply to the comment addressing the ubiquitous use of IBM Blue on their products.In my time at IBM there were a number of options for the end doors for the ES 9000 series of mainframes. All the basic color palette were available but from my colleagues I was told that for example companies such as John Deere and Yellow Freight had their own custom colors. I worked with several people that were involved with system installs at customer sites. Since installs of these required raised floors and strong temperature control. They were very often installed behind glass walls. I was told that these were frequently used by the customers to show off to their customers of their very advanced data processing equipment in which case IBM Blue was a bragging point.
i was a partner i,n a computer leasing co. The most popular colors were Blue, red, yellow.(360), 370(black front panel + baige, blue, red. WHEN a customer ordered a machine from us or if we refurbished a used machine,
we would paint it any color they wanted. Usually people just wanted blue.
The story is that IBM entered the photocopier business in 1970 because they were flooding the government with documents during the anti-trust trial. It resulted in lawsuits from Xerox, claiming that IBM had violated 22 of their patents (despite IBM already being a licensee of many of them for their printers). This might be an interesting thread for you to follow.
Does this sound like AWS?
That’s why we old geezers laugh about the new stuff. All been there before with „a bit“ less computing power. 😂
I always get notifications for your videos, but not this one... You might want to reupload it or make a community post with a link to it
I appreciate the citation of the DALL-E pixel art.
Solid content. Did IBM ever profit from customer's data?
IBM never mined the customer data...
@@rayoflight62 was it by choice? Or they missed the opportunity?
This idiot thinks mainframe computers ad pop up ads
They existed before the idea of turning the customers into the product hit the tech industry
What happened to your spotify reposting? I miss it greatly.
Wait, wait, wait, IBM's Complete Solution is essentially SaaS?! Good grief, that business model is almost as old as the software industry itself!
In a very real sense, one didn't go to IBM for a computer, but rather for a data processing solution. The typical use case wasn't built on 'I need something to run this software on' or 'I need software that does these functions ', but rather 'I have this data and need to extract this information '.
WRONG!!!!! THE IBM, UNIVAC AND HONEYWELL SOFTWARE LIBRARYS WERE USELESS FOR THE AVERAGE
COMPANY!!!! THEY USUALLY CONSISTED OF SPECIALIZED OPERATING SYSTEM PROGRAMS.
TSS, MITS(TIME SHARING), DOS, OS MFT, OS!!! AND UTILITIES AND USLESS JUNK!!!
WRONG: UNBUNDLING MYTH, UNBUNDLING ONLY HELPED IBM PROFITS!!!
UNBUNDLING WAS A 3% DISCOUNT ON "SERVICES YOU NEVER GOT"!!!!!
YOU ALWAYS PAID FOR ANY IBM CONSULTING OR PROGRAMMING $250 TO $450 PER HOUR!!!S
IF YOU BAUGHT AN IBM MAINFRAME 360/370, YOU GOT A SALEMAN WHO ALWAYS PICKED UP
THE PHONE!! AND AN SE(SYSTEM ENGINEER, WHO NEVER PICKED UP THE PHONE OR
WOULD NEVER CALL YOU BACK!!!).
IBM'S REAL VALUE WAS IN IT'S REPAIR SERVICE. CE(CUSTOMERS ENGINEERS)
WERE ALWAYS QUICK TO RESPOND SAME DAY OR NIGHT!!!
NO OTHER COMPUTER MFG COULD MATCH IBM'S REPAIR RELIABILITY SERVICE!!
THEN IBM DEVALUED THEIR CE'S AND SAID ANYONE COULD FIX A COMPUYTER
OVER THE PHONE FROM INDIA, IBM DESTROYED THE IBM BRAND!!!
WHEN GRANDMA COULD FIX HER OWN COMPUTER OVER THE PHONE FROM INDIA,
WHY PAY IBM PREMIUM PRICES. BUY DELL, HP OR APPLE INSTEAD!!!
TODAY THE IBM BRAND IS WORTHLESS.
RCA SE'S WERE ALWAYS AVAILABLE(SINCE RCA HAD NO CUSTOMERS!!).
IT IS THE SAME TODAY, IF YOU NEED A WEB SITE TO DO CUSTOMER SERVICE, SALES, BILLING YOU
WRITE IT OR HIRE A CONSULTANT. DELL, IBM, HP DO NOT GIVE YOU A WEBSTE AND CUSTOM PROGRAMMER,
WHEN YOU BUY A $1000 COMPUTER.
TO SELL A MACHINE IBM, UNIVAC, HONEYWELL, RCA WOULD SELL YOU A MACHINE AND GIVE YOU A LIST
OF CONSULTANTS. THESE REFERALS WERE GREAT!!!, THEN NOT GREAT, THEN VERY POOR!!
THEN "NO TANKS, WE DO NOT WANT IBM WORTHLESS REFERALS!!
(WE WERE NOT GOING TO LOSE MONEY TO HELP IBM SELL MACHINES!!! ALL HARDWARE MFG NEED
A FALL GUY TO SAY BUY THE MACHINE, I'LL DO THE SOFTWARE!!!)
AS MACHINES GOT CHEAPER AND CHEAPER THE REFERALS BECAME CHEAPER AND CHEAPER.
IBM SALESMEN WOULD SELL A SYSTEM 34 FOR $50,000 AND TELL THE CUSTOMER TO ONLY
PAY THE CONSULTANT $5,000 TO WRITE A CUSTOM BILLING PACKAGE. THAT WAS A JOKE!!!
THEN IBM STARTED KEEPING ALL THE GOOD LEADS THEM SELF AND FORMED THEIR OWN
CONSULTING/OUT SOURCE COMPANY GLOBAL SERVICES, WHICH COMPETED AGINST CONSULTANTS!!
CONSULTANTS STARTED RECOMMENDING BETTER CHEAPER MACHINES FROM DELL, HP, APPLE
IBM IS NOW JUST ANOTHER LINUX VEBDOR, RED HAT. IBM'S HARDWARE Z SYSTEMS DECLINES 20%
PER YEAR. IBM IS ALMOST TOTALLY OUT OF THE COMPUTER HARDWARE BUSINESS.
I STOPPED RECOMMENDING IBM PRODUCTS TO CUSTOMERS 25 TEARS AGO, I AM SURPRISED
IBM IS STILL IN BUSINESS!!!!!!
BUT SINCE THEY ARE REALLY JUST RED HAT, THEY SHOULD CHANGE THEIR NAME TO:
"RED HAT LINUX FORMERLY IBM"
Next video- "Unbundling IBM Freed the Hardware Industry".
My first thought when I saw the title of this video was hardware, with vendors like Amdahl and Hitachi. I was in the software side shortly afterwards. There was a huge market for custom business applications.
WRONG!!!!! THE IBM, UNIVAC AND HONEYWELL SOFTWARE LIBRARYS WERE USELESS FOR THE AVERAGE
COMPANY!!!! THEY USUALLY CONSISTED OF SPECIALIZED OPERATING SYSTEM PROGRAMS.
TSS, MITS(TIME SHARING), DOS, OS MFT, OS!!! AND UTILITIES AND USLESS JUNK!!!
WRONG: UNBUNDLING MYTH, UNBUNDLING ONLY HELPED IBM PROFITS!!!
UNBUNDLING WAS A 3% DISCOUNT ON "SERVICES YOU NEVER GOT"!!!!!
YOU ALWAYS PAID FOR ANY IBM CONSULTING OR PROGRAMMING $250 TO $450 PER HOUR!!!S
IF YOU BAUGHT AN IBM MAINFRAME 360/370, YOU GOT A SALEMAN WHO ALWAYS PICKED UP
THE PHONE!! AND AN SE(SYSTEM ENGINEER, WHO NEVER PICKED UP THE PHONE OR
WOULD NEVER CALL YOU BACK!!!).
IBM'S REAL VALUE WAS IN IT'S REPAIR SERVICE. CE(CUSTOMERS ENGINEERS)
WERE ALWAYS QUICK TO RESPOND SAME DAY OR NIGHT!!!
NO OTHER COMPUTER MFG COULD MATCH IBM'S REPAIR RELIABILITY SERVICE!!
THEN IBM DEVALUED THEIR CE'S AND SAID ANYONE COULD FIX A COMPUYTER
OVER THE PHONE FROM INDIA, IBM DESTROYED THE IBM BRAND!!!
WHEN GRANDMA COULD FIX HER OWN COMPUTER OVER THE PHONE FROM INDIA,
WHY PAY IBM PREMIUM PRICES. BUY DELL, HP OR APPLE INSTEAD!!!
TODAY THE IBM BRAND IS WORTHLESS.
RCA SE'S WERE ALWAYS AVAILABLE(SINCE RCA HAD NO CUSTOMERS!!).
IT IS THE SAME TODAY, IF YOU NEED A WEB SITE TO DO CUSTOMER SERVICE, SALES, BILLING YOU
WRITE IT OR HIRE A CONSULTANT. DELL, IBM, HP DO NOT GIVE YOU A WEBSTE AND CUSTOM PROGRAMMER,
WHEN YOU BUY A $1000 COMPUTER.
TO SELL A MACHINE IBM, UNIVAC, HONEYWELL, RCA WOULD SELL YOU A MACHINE AND GIVE YOU A LIST
OF CONSULTANTS. THESE REFERALS WERE GREAT!!!, THEN NOT GREAT, THEN VERY POOR!!
THEN "NO TANKS, WE DO NOT WANT IBM WORTHLESS REFERALS!!
(WE WERE NOT GOING TO LOSE MONEY TO HELP IBM SELL MACHINES!!! ALL HARDWARE MFG NEED
A FALL GUY TO SAY BUY THE MACHINE, I'LL DO THE SOFTWARE!!!)
AS MACHINES GOT CHEAPER AND CHEAPER THE REFERALS BECAME CHEAPER AND CHEAPER.
IBM SALESMEN WOULD SELL A SYSTEM 34 FOR $50,000 AND TELL THE CUSTOMER TO ONLY
PAY THE CONSULTANT $5,000 TO WRITE A CUSTOM BILLING PACKAGE. THAT WAS A JOKE!!!
THEN IBM STARTED KEEPING ALL THE GOOD LEADS THEM SELF AND FORMED THEIR OWN
CONSULTING/OUT SOURCE COMPANY GLOBAL SERVICES, WHICH COMPETED AGINST CONSULTANTS!!
CONSULTANTS STARTED RECOMMENDING BETTER CHEAPER MACHINES FROM DELL, HP, APPLE
IBM IS NOW JUST ANOTHER LINUX VEBDOR, RED HAT. IBM'S HARDWARE Z SYSTEMS DECLINES 20%
PER YEAR. IBM IS ALMOST TOTALLY OUT OF THE COMPUTER HARDWARE BUSINESS.
I STOPPED RECOMMENDING IBM PRODUCTS TO CUSTOMERS 25 TEARS AGO, I AM SURPRISED
IBM IS STILL IN BUSINESS!!!!!!
BUT SINCE THEY ARE REALLY JUST RED HAT, THEY SHOULD CHANGE THEIR NAME TO:
"RED HAT LINUX FORMERLY IBM"
I think the "Software" meant Application Software, not the bootloader nor the Operating System.
Case in point, in 1972 System/370 has the VM/CMS, while "pure" O.S. is MVS. Per Wikipedia, seems there's open sourced version of VM/CMS as well as paid/supported version. I am not sure.
However, it's not in the instruction-set public knowledge era, so there is no possibility of having VMware nor Openstack. :(
Not sure what you mean by "instruction-set public knowledge era", but the Wikipedia article for IBM System/370 notes that GCC could target the 370 architecture, and the current release still supports the 390 and zSeries architectures. And, of course, Linux has run on the 390 and zSeries as an IBM-supported product.
But it seems that Linux (and potentially other) systems can only run as guests in the hypervisor environment (z/VM), with customers unable to replace the hypervisor with something else. You can run emulators of zSeries machines such as Hercules on other hardware, but you then need to acquire a suitable operating environment to run in the emulated machine. (This is where IBM refuses to license newer products to run in such emulators, leading to a complaint being brought against IBM in the EU that was later dismissed.)
I imagine you could make something like Linux, or maybe a Free Software hypervisor, run at the appropriate level in such emulators, but since such a product would never get a chance to run on a real zSeries machine, and since you could just run such a hypervisor on other hardware instead, I guess it isn't significantly interesting to do. That said, I imagine that people have looked into it, anyway.
@@paul_boddie I don't know in 1972, IBM would have released the System 370 instruction set documentation, especially hypervisor related for external software firm development purpose. I am guessing it's not, since other Compute hardware companies can learn and/or imitate.
@@ccshello1 I guess Amdahl implemented the architecture and must have known the details of it, judging from the Amdahl 470/6 reference manual (from 1973) that I just found. I also found the "System/370 Extended Architecture Reference Summary" (from 1989, but based on earlier publications dating back to 1984, which one might expect since it is about ESA/370, not plain System/370) that describes details of the instruction set.
But without looking further, I don't really know. I only wanted to point out that the ISA seems reasonably well understood to the extent that emulators need VM implementations to be commercially useful and must therefore provide all the necessary hypervisor support. Again, this is without digging deeper into these products.
Just think about Linus Torwalds. He had some Intel documents on 386 architecture, like you would have had in the 70s for a /370, but he was also able to buy the bare silicone to try it out. With rented time on a mainframe you can’t debug an os running on the bare hardware. At least not w/o simulation software, that would need to know how the software works and how to find out.
With 386 you needed a 386sx pc in 1990 and a 32bit version of GCC running in a DIS-extender. Put a bootloader on a floppy and let it load a kernel that switched to 32-bit mode and read keyboard and write to screen.
How I know?
I did it, while someone in Finnland did the same. But as I rarely got some of my private projects done, but he did, I now use his kernel since at least 20y.
Back to big iron: it’s just to un-affordable to create an OS without having a (big) business behind.
@@fromgermany271 Naturally, if you lower the barriers to entry, you get a lot more people doing interesting things. That said, with regard to big iron operating systems, the story about Amdahl's UTS is informative and also slightly amusing, its origins involving students deciding that they would simply have a go at porting Unix to System/370. Take a look at the Wikipedia article for Amdahl UTS and follow the reference to Tom Lyons' blog where he tells the story.
Thanks for teaching us stuff
any one have any suggestions for further reading on this topic?
you should have started with the 360 architecture. unlike the seven dwarfs programs written on 360 mdl 20 could run basically as is on another mdl 20 or 60. hence the PCMs, 3rd party system software etc with unbundling in the late 60s.
Not so. The Univac 9000 series and the RCA Spectra were CPU-compatible with the IBM 360. Same Assembler, RPG, COBOL, etc.
Best episode yet. All so true!
Got through the 60s without a single mention of Burroughs 🤓
They did a lot of advanced research, a lot of the early digital computer chips were from them...
6:47 the IBM 360
"Its a beautiful thing" as the saying goes in new york
Ooh, I assume you listen to Advent of Computing?
FYI: In 1956 IBM and United shoe signed consent decrees to drop Monoply charges!!
1956 to 1970 IBM could NOT COPYRIGHT manual and software and had to
give the Operating System to anyone who ask for it!! That is how oneywell, RCA
Amdal, nas, fujitsu and the Hercules emulator(free) got the source coder for IBM OS/MVT,
DOS, TOS.
1970 WAS THE FIRST YEAR THAT IBM COULD CHARGE FOR THE OPERATING SYSTEM!!!
the operating system became closed source and very expensive. it was a very big price increase. If IBM did your programming for free why did CHASE BANK have 600 programmers
2500 employees in its Data Processing Dept. This ideo is nonesence!!
Now do DEC
The getz quote was "nonsense" only the operating system was free!!! NOTHING ELSE WAS FREE!!
It's interesting that what IBM was doing was seen as illegal, but you can't buy a Samsung phone without android, or a Mac without Mac OS.
For Apple that is true, but on Android phones you can install any other operating system.
@@daseinzigwahrem On some of them you can, but you have to buy them all with Android installed (as far as I know.)
Get them & keep them on a service subscription & consumables plan, wasn't that always the goal even in the Hollerith days?
What was the most exciting IBM software
of the time and of this era? And what was the software used for?
Well it was mostly wasn't meant to be exciting Kind of like being an EMT if things get exciting it means bad things are happening to people. Examples would be the SAGE air defense system, SABRE system for the airlines and the Air Traffic Control systems
@@giantgeoff what is an emt?
@@giantgeoff And what did the sage and sabre system actually do as compared to how things were run before computers.
@@21stcenturyscots EMT = Emergency Medical Technician. Having been one, One doesn't get called out unless something bad has happened to someone.
@@21stcenturyscots Sage was for detecting incoming missile attacks during the Cold War. Sabre was a centralized realtime system for making airline ticketing reservations. It was the first of it's kind and a precursor of all the systems that we take for granted today.
Imagine going back to the 60s and telling these guys that one of the biggest markets in consumer pc's would be games lol. They'd picture some 10 pixel screen and tell you to lay off the reefer.
Openness always wins in the end
Consumer-facing software versioning is one of the greatest scams of the Anthropocene.
Great!
U have got to make next video on how US helped boom India's Outsourcing Services Industry.
yeah rip twin corp xerox and rca
Interesting history.
sweet takedown!
IBM was such a great company, what happened to it recently?
What I always wonder is why IBM is still around, and still somehow makes billions per year despite having lost both the desktop PC market and the software market. I'd love a vid going into detail about what the frick they actually do these days. I assume part of their lifeline always has been DARPA/NASA other related blackbox projects for US gov.
Stock market, banking, and casino systems. Plus patents. And they recently teleported a particle. Or it's like McDonalds - they got money in real estate just by being so early to get buildings that are now in prime locations.
Dave's Garage did a great overview on their z16. Still very much relevant today for a lot of corporations you would imaging would use them (Apple's stores for a start!).
th-cam.com/video/ouAG4vXFORc/w-d-xo.html
WRONG!!!!! THE IBM, UNIVAC AND HONEYWELL SOFTWARE LIBRARYS WERE USELESS FOR THE AVERAGE
COMPANY!!!! THEY USUALLY CONSISTED OF SPECIALIZED OPERATING SYSTEM PROGRAMS.
TSS, MITS(TIME SHARING), DOS, OS MFT, OS!!! AND UTILITIES AND USLESS JUNK!!!
WRONG: UNBUNDLING MYTH, UNBUNDLING ONLY HELPED IBM PROFITS!!!
UNBUNDLING WAS A 3% DISCOUNT ON "SERVICES YOU NEVER GOT"!!!!!
YOU ALWAYS PAID FOR ANY IBM CONSULTING OR PROGRAMMING $250 TO $450 PER HOUR!!!S
IF YOU BAUGHT AN IBM MAINFRAME 360/370, YOU GOT A SALEMAN WHO ALWAYS PICKED UP
THE PHONE!! AND AN SE(SYSTEM ENGINEER, WHO NEVER PICKED UP THE PHONE OR
WOULD NEVER CALL YOU BACK!!!).
IBM'S REAL VALUE WAS IN IT'S REPAIR SERVICE. CE(CUSTOMERS ENGINEERS)
WERE ALWAYS QUICK TO RESPOND SAME DAY OR NIGHT!!!
NO OTHER COMPUTER MFG COULD MATCH IBM'S REPAIR RELIABILITY SERVICE!!
THEN IBM DEVALUED THEIR CE'S AND SAID ANYONE COULD FIX A COMPUYTER
OVER THE PHONE FROM INDIA, IBM DESTROYED THE IBM BRAND!!!
WHEN GRANDMA COULD FIX HER OWN COMPUTER OVER THE PHONE FROM INDIA,
WHY PAY IBM PREMIUM PRICES. BUY DELL, HP OR APPLE INSTEAD!!!
TODAY THE IBM BRAND IS WORTHLESS.
RCA SE'S WERE ALWAYS AVAILABLE(SINCE RCA HAD NO CUSTOMERS!!).
IT IS THE SAME TODAY, IF YOU NEED A WEB SITE TO DO CUSTOMER SERVICE, SALES, BILLING YOU
WRITE IT OR HIRE A CONSULTANT. DELL, IBM, HP DO NOT GIVE YOU A WEBSTE AND CUSTOM PROGRAMMER,
WHEN YOU BUY A $1000 COMPUTER.
TO SELL A MACHINE IBM, UNIVAC, HONEYWELL, RCA WOULD SELL YOU A MACHINE AND GIVE YOU A LIST
OF CONSULTANTS. THESE REFERALS WERE GREAT!!!, THEN NOT GREAT, THEN VERY POOR!!
THEN "NO TANKS, WE DO NOT WANT IBM WORTHLESS REFERALS!!
(WE WERE NOT GOING TO LOSE MONEY TO HELP IBM SELL MACHINES!!! ALL HARDWARE MFG NEED
A FALL GUY TO SAY BUY THE MACHINE, I'LL DO THE SOFTWARE!!!)
AS MACHINES GOT CHEAPER AND CHEAPER THE REFERALS BECAME CHEAPER AND CHEAPER.
IBM SALESMEN WOULD SELL A SYSTEM 34 FOR $50,000 AND TELL THE CUSTOMER TO ONLY
PAY THE CONSULTANT $5,000 TO WRITE A CUSTOM BILLING PACKAGE. THAT WAS A JOKE!!!
THEN IBM STARTED KEEPING ALL THE GOOD LEADS THEM SELF AND FORMED THEIR OWN
CONSULTING/OUT SOURCE COMPANY GLOBAL SERVICES, WHICH COMPETED AGINST CONSULTANTS!!
CONSULTANTS STARTED RECOMMENDING BETTER CHEAPER MACHINES FROM DELL, HP, APPLE
IBM IS NOW JUST ANOTHER LINUX VEBDOR, RED HAT. IBM'S HARDWARE Z SYSTEMS DECLINES 20%
PER YEAR. IBM IS ALMOST TOTALLY OUT OF THE COMPUTER HARDWARE BUSINESS.
I STOPPED RECOMMENDING IBM PRODUCTS TO CUSTOMERS 25 TEARS AGO, I AM SURPRISED
IBM IS STILL IN BUSINESS!!!!!!
BUT SINCE THEY ARE REALLY JUST RED HAT, THEY SHOULD CHANGE THEIR NAME TO:
"RED HAT LINUX FORMERLY IBM"
People are still mad at Nixon 50 years later.
Imagine: A time when IBM was relevant 🤯
Wrong: Every IBM CUSTOMER HAD THEIR OWN PROGRAMMERS AND DATA PROCESSING DEPT OR SMALL
GUYS USED A CONSULTING SERVICE( WE CHARGED $50 TO $75 PER HOUR FOR PROGRAMMING, IBM CHARGED $250 HOUR) THAT WAS IN THE 1970'S AND 1980'S!!!
IBM FOR $2,000 TO $100,000 PER MONTH RENTAL PROVIDED JUST A MACHINE AND VERY GOOD REPAIR SERVICE. EVERYTHING ELSE COST $250 TO $450 PER HOUR!!!
You got some weird background noise going on.
Sounds like a split-unit AC system fan.....
Just another Earth-changing event that took place in 1969
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
IBM DESTROYED IT'S BRAND: IBM'S Has always touted RELIABILITY THAT WAS IT'S UNIQUE FEATURE(it had 100 times the number of repair people than RCA, UNIVAC, HP, hp, DEC). I was partner in a leasing company(we had IBM and RCA, DEC computers). I could fix any IBM computer in 3 hours(iBM trouble shooting system was vastly superior to other mfg's). The RCA's took 1 to 3 days(you had to trace miles of wiring). OTHER MFG REALLY DID NOT CARE ABOUT RELIABILITY OR
MEAN REPAIR TIMES(THEY COULD HAVE COPIED IBM'S REPAIR METHODS!!!.
THEN IBM DEVALUED THEIR BRAND AND SERVICE BY SAYING ANYONE COULD FIX THEIR COMPUTERS OVER THE PHONE FROM INDIA!!!! DELL, HP AND EVERYONE ELSE HAD DO IT YOURSELF REPAIR SERVICE FROM INDIA, SO WHY WOULD
ANYONE PAY PREMIUM IBM PRICES??????????????????????
You know, the word niche is not pronounced like "Nietzsche", but like "nee-sh" (just letting you know)
12:12 The master of this is Apple. Case in point: Airpods. Software c**k blocking
Gona are the days that the DOJ did not behave like a Gestapo
And now we're back to bundling and worse. At least IBM didn't demand 30% of the price a customer pays to buy a third party software.
A lot of it comes for free with an app store or your computer too.
Also, that price simply reflects costs at the time. These days there are code monkeys in turdworld states that will code up aps for peanuts so that the country can pretend they have technology
:)
"…like as…" - Use one word or the other in these cases.
You're not a deer, stop the lies!! Thanks for the video.
ENIAC wasn't programmed by 6 women as in they came up with the script, it was designed by 9 men and given to 6 women to implement. It's no different a secretary transcribing a memo.
WRONG: Operating a 0) generation IBM tab machines 1)eniac tubE computers 3) 1401 transistor. RCA 301computers were difficult binary operations!!!!! NOT SECRETARIAL WORK!!!
Type writers to enter commands did not happen till the mid 1960's. You had to think in binary!!!
@@edmartin6245 WRONG: They were given commands and transcribed them into the computers. The commands were written by men and inputted by women. Get over yourself
Very disappointing video that leaves out the massive role of Atlanta based MSA
You keep saying "like as" specifically to annoy me, don't you