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Ancient IBM wisdom (from 1979) that the bosses just straight up promptly forgot (media.piefed.social)

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Apparently a page from an internal IBM training manual. Some further attempts at source it

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

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[–] bobo@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

meanwhile Albania

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