@heiseonline@social.heise.deDas Nerdquiz rund um den IBM-PC
Der IBM PC 5150 ist 45 Jahre alt geworden. Was als billige Antwort auf Apple, Commodore & Co. gedacht war, wurde schnell zum Standard-PC. Dazu ein Quiz.
https://www.heise.de…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIBM stock fell 25% on Tuesday, sinking further than its previous worst day of October 19, 1987, after reporting preliminary Q2 results below estimates (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/14/ibm-warns-second-quarter-earnings-fell-short-of-exp…
@publicvoit@graz.social @heiseonline@social.heise.de
@kubikpixel@chaos.social«ETH Zürich hostet neuen IBM-Quantencomputer:
Die Schweiz verfügt künftig über einen der modernsten Quantencomputer von IBM weltweit. Dieser soll Forschung und Ausbildung voranbringen.»
Da bin ich mal gespannt was dies bewirkt und in welcher Zusammenarbeit es genutzt wird. Ich gehe mal davon aus, dass dies nicht (direkt) öffentlich zugänglich ist.
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@neverpanic@chaos.socialOne option to help upstream projects: put your engineers upstream! Over half of substantive changes in #OpenSSL 3.5 came from other companies.
#OpenSSLCon26
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzMULTIMODAL-MULTIRESOLUTION FOUNDATION MODEL FOR LUNAR REMOTE SENSING: #Lunar Science: https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/artificial-intelligence-lunar-foundation-model/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIBM and Together AI sign a $240M, multi-year deal to build an AI inference cluster on IBM Cloud, using Nvidia's HGX B300 systems, to support open-source models (Anhata Rooprai/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/ibm-toget
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzSpeaking to people in the 'conventional tech services' industry, I get the impression that *nearly all of them* hate the technologies - mostly from US Big Tech - they feel forced to push. Seems soul destroying. People talking about shifting gov't departments from IBM to Microsoft dependence to save $15million annually. When, in most cases, they could be saving $100s millions by using a local provider running libre software... Seems like an industry swamped with cognitive dissonan…
@grist@fosstodon.orgFor engineering teams in regulated industries weighing a legacy requirements management tool against a custom-built alternative, Dotphoton’s experience is one of the clearest demonstrations that the custom-built path works well when it’s built on Grist. …
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
IBM Stretch/Harvest: the NSA’s most powerful code breaker in the 1960s.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/cold-war-codebreaker-nsa-ibm
saved 2026-09-15
@heiseonline@social.heise.deIBM-Mainframes: Der nächste Z-Prozessor kann auch ARM
Die nächste Z-CPU-Generation lernt ARM-Instruktionen. Die Kernanzahl steigt von acht auf elf und auch mehr Takt gibt es.
https://www.…
@aka_pugs@mastodon.socialOTD 1972: IBM announces the System 370 models 158 and 168 - first with virtual memory.
Pictured: just the console, not the computer
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioHappy 45h birthday, IBM PC!
@fortune@social.linux.pizzaIBM Pollyanna Principle:
Machines should work. People should think.
@grist@fosstodon.orgGrist’s custom widget framework, full API access, and self-hosting options give engineering teams the infrastructure to build requirements traceability systems on their own terms. https://www.getgrist.com/case-studies/how-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIBM says it is developing a dual-architecture processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE systems that can natively execute both IBM's z/OS workloads and Arm applications (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/infrastructure
@chpietsch@fedifreu.de@… I share your concern about Debian's genAI decision.
How are you going to replace Debian on servers? Ubuntu is based on Debian, and it is not known for taking a more ethical stance than Debian.
The other server distros are based on IBM's Red Hat, and I do not trust IBM.
@aka_pugs@mastodon.socialDatamation, April 1970.
The 360/195 was the fastest IBM machine at the time.
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaIBM makes Linux-only mainframes. z/Architecture "Telum II" CPU, not ARM, POWER, or x86_64, sold under the "LinuxONE" banner.
I need one.
@stiefkind@mastodon.socialAls Teenager – so ab zwölf, dreizehn Jahren – habe ich regelmäßig von Behörden oder Firmen kostenloses Informationsmaterial angefordert. Ich erinnere mich insbesondere an das Umweltbundesamt, das Bayerische Landesamt für Umwelt, IBM, Kosmos (die mit den Chemie-Experimentierkästen). Meistens per handgeschriebener Postkarte. Soweit ich mich erinnere, hat das in allen Fällen funktioniert und vielleicht habe ich deshalb bis heute keine sonderliche Angst vor der Kommunikation mit Behörden.
@grist@fosstodon.orgThe team was left looking for something that did not exist as a category: a self-hosted, extensible, engineer-friendly application that could handle structured requirements at scale and integrate with a custom document generation pipeline. https://www.…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIBM acquires HRL Laboratories from Boeing and General Motors, seeking to integrate HRL's electron spin quantum circuits into its quantum computers (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-tra
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.iounfortunate that the IBM WatchPad never made it past the prototype stage
(yes they really made these prototypes)
@aka_pugs@mastodon.social70 years of hard drives!
OTD 1956, IBM announces the RAMAC 350.
https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/memory-storage/8/233
Hard drive platters started at 24", peaked at 48" (very rare), shrank to 0.85" (just before flash).
14" dominated for a couple of decades.
Now 3.5" drives dominate, with a dwindling 2.5" drive market.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialChip design startup Agentrys has raised a $19.1M seed round led by Etna Labs and a $5.4M pre-seed led by MediaTek (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/08/26/nvidia-agentrys-agentic-chip-design…
@grist@fosstodon.org @theodric@social.linux.pizzaFYI
@grist@fosstodon.orgHow Dotphoton built a fully traceable QA system for the European Space Agency, without hiring a documentation team https://www.getgrist.com/case-studies/how-dotphoton-built-a-fully-traceable-qa…
@aka_pugs@mastodon.socialIt seemed pretty good at the time!
Abysmal MTTF performance for the IBM 360/91 at Princeton in the 74/75 school year.
From a Computer Center newsletter.
The general improvement trend in software MTTF is as they matured from the conversion from HASP to LASP just before these metrics.
@grist@fosstodon.orgDotphoton’s setup is in production, complying with the engineering standards of the European Space Agency. https://www.getgrist.com/case-studies/how-dotphoton-built-a-fully-traceable-qa-system-…
@grist@fosstodon.orgDotphoton needed a system to track production requirements that met the engineering standards of the European Space Agency, ran on their own infrastructure, and produced audit-ready deliverables on demand. https://www.getgri…
@grist@fosstodon.orgThe system runs on-prem, meets ESA’s engineering standards, and produces delivery-ready PDFs on demand. https://www.getgrist.com/case-studies/how-dotphoton-built-a-fully-traceable-qa-system-for…
@grist@fosstodon.orgThe system Dotphoton owns is auditable, self-hosted, extensible, and maintained by their own engineering team. https://www.getgrist.com/case-studies/how-dotphoton-built-a-fully-traceable-qa-sys…
@grist@fosstodon.orgFor Swiss, European, or international engineering teams working to space-sector standards, medical device standards, or defense standards, the open source path is a real option. Dotphoton is proof. https://www.getgrist.com/c…
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterI've just learned that #8bitdo have released an #IBM #ModelM edition of their fabulous range of retro keyboards and I am definitely here for it!
#RetroComputing
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioDid you know? IBM stands for “Itty Bitty Machines”
#retrocomputing
@grist@fosstodon.orgSanguinetti could hand the system to a non-technical team member and expect them to add requirements, update test results, and trigger PDF generation without training. https://www.getgrist.com/case-studies/how-
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioFor example, here's some keys on a IBM DisplayWriter Keyboard
