@Techmeme@techhub.socialIBM and Cisco plan to link quantum computers over long distances and aim to provide a proof-of-concept by 2030, potentially paving the way for quantum internet (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.socialZehn Jahre nach Cloud-Umzug, Lotusphere und IBM Connections schaue ich zurück: auf Produkte, die besser waren als ihr Ruf, auf Debatten, die bis heute wirken, und auf eine Community, die Zusammenarbeit ernst genommen hat. Ein schon etwas nostalgischer Blick zurück. #2016 #TenYearsAfter
@makeratschool@kanoa.deAlle Bundespolitiker_innen so:
"Wir werfen KI auf alles und streichen dafür gaaaanz viele Stellen."
IBM so:
"We are tripling our entry-level hiring, and yes, that is for software developers and all these jobs we’re being told AI can do.”
https://
@timfoster@mastodon.socialWhat do you mean "CDE is hard to configure?"
@jamie@boothcomputing.socialIt's alive!
The IBM 5150 (AKA IBM PC) just needed two caps on the 12V line replaced. The monitor had some plastic rattling around in the case. Both of those were pretty easy to solve.
#retrocomputing
@heiseonline@social.heise.deIBM-Chef hält aktuellen KI-Bauwahn für nicht tragbar
Das Wettrüsten zwischen Hyperscalern verschlingt Billionen US-Dollar. IBM-CEO Arvind Krishna hinterfragt, wie wirtschaftlich das ist.
https://www.
@stiefkind@mastodon.socialIch habe heute eine IBM AS/400 in einem Schaufenster gesehen. War aber nur Dekoration. #vintagecomputing #graz
@frankel@mastodon.top
@scottmiller42@mstdn.socialOof, this doesn’t seem like it was that long ago.
30 years ago, February 10-17, 1996, Garry Kasparov beat the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue 4 games to 2.
#Chess #GarryKasparov #DeepBlue
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioHas anyone made a good video on the obscure IBM System 9000?
It's a 68000-based architecture that can support "large amounts of RAM", the article brags about "as much 2 megabytes".
https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1984-09/page/n225/mode/2up
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
What is a PC compatible?
https://codon.org.uk/~mjg59/blog/p/what-is-a-pc-compatible/
saved 2026-01-04 https://
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIBM says it plans to triple entry-level hiring in the US in 2026 "for all these jobs that we're being told AI can do" (Jo Constantz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-12/ibm-plans-to-triple-entr…
@jtk@infosec.exchangeThe title of the blog post blog was clickbait for me. It argues #Thinkpad fandom boils down to price, build quality, and repairability.
There is one glaringly obvious omission any longtime user should spot immediately. There is no mention of the unique trackpoint-based keyboard design that you can't find anywhere else.
I've stopped using ThinkPads as my primary platform f…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaWas flipping through my old photos and found this absolutely pornographic shot of my IBM P70 portable
@usul@piaille.frI Ran a 5.25” Floppy Disk With NO Case in an IBM XT Drive. - YouTube
#floppy_Disk
@johnleonard@mastodon.social
@tante@tldr.nettime.org
@gwire@mastodon.socialHow is government still spending tens-of-millions on software development with nothing to show for it?
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/feb/17/uk-frictionless-post-brexit-trade-border-project
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialBack when I worked at SDC in Santa Monica (roughly 1971 through 1980) one of our department's projects was an early AI project.
We had an entire IBM 370 mainframe running CP/67 (which became IBM's VM) running LISP based AI code.
I think that the group may have been using it for continuous speech recognition - which we knew our "national security' customer was planning to use to automate wiretaps.
(I used the speech recognition project's soundproof room …
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAn interview with IBM CEO Arvind Krishna on why there's no AI bubble, his view that Watson's healthcare push was "inappropriate", IBM's quantum bet, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/829868/ib
@jamie@boothcomputing.socialI hate trying to work with OS/2. I'm told this worked on IBM systems, but it's a pain in the ass on anything else. Right now, it can see the drive, crate partitions, but not volumes. And it needs volumes to install.
I'm at the point where I be happy if it nuked my two windows installs (because I can put those back) if it would just install itself....
#retrocomputing
@filmfacts@social.tchncs.deBeim Aufräumen gefunden: Baujahr 1985, originalverpackt, unbenutzt -
#IBM Modell M!
Mein' ja nur :-)
@keen456@infosec.exchange@… Have you seen this post by @… ? https://www.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io~timeline cleanser~
We should talk more about the IBM Leapfrog from the early 90s
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy
@compfu@mograph.socialGood examples in that article for why a prompt-based system for system administration seems odd: You type a hundred-word question and are told by the AI to use apt when the Fedora system doesn’t use that package manager at all. https://mstdn.social/@osnews/115702679695335298
@jamie@boothcomputing.socialWell, I had the dip switches set incorrectly and it was trying to test memory that didn't exist. Fixed that and the floppy drives seem to work as well...
I'm also impressed that the Dell System 200 DOS 3.3 Master disk (circa 1987) is still working.
#retrocomputing
#IBM5150
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
The convoy phenomenon in lock contention.
https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/07/01/the-convoy-phenomenon/
saved 2019-07-01 ht…
@paul@social.van.buu.reFTM heeft een nuttig artikel (nuttig als in: lastig, anti-autoritair) over BZK en NLdigital.
"BZK wees branchevereniging NLdigital aan als ‘poortwachter’ voor het organiseren van de gesprekken van het aanjaagteam Cloud. En die keuze is opmerkelijk. Anders dan de naam doet vermoeden, maakt de belangenbehartiger met ruim 500 leden zich namelijk ook hard voor Amerikaanse belangen van leden als Microsoft, Google, Amazon, IBM en Oracle.”
@publicvoit@graz.socialLook at that nerdy beauty! 🤓
Pantasy Old School Computer Kit | 1980s IBM PC330 Replica Blocks
https://pantasy.com/products/retro-90s-pc-85005
It has so many nice details included:
@avstockhausen@fedihum.org
@johnm@social.tchncs.de @Techmeme@techhub.socialIBM agrees to acquire data streaming software maker Confluent for ~$11B in cash, above its ~$8B market value as of its December 5 close, paying $31 per share (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/ibm-nears…
@stefanlaser@social.tchncs.deEpic insights on the #semiconductor industry in #Taiwan. We’re on the second day of our workshop, with a heavy focus on walks.
/
The industry came to the island in the freaking 1950s. Here’s a precious IBM machine, infamously transported by horse car 🐎 because trucks were to shaky…
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaIBM computer hardware was weird, proprietary, and very expensive, but it was also really, really fucking good. Their z/Systems still are. Top-notch operational documentation, too.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: IBM is in advanced talks to buy data streaming software maker Confluent for ~$11B, above its market value of ~$8B as of December 5 close (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/ibm-nears-roughly-11-billion-de…
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.socialZehn Jahre zurück: Orlando. Lotusphere. IBM Connect. Eine Zeit, in der Zusammenarbeit neu gedacht wurde: Lotus Notes, IBM Connections, große Visionen –
Heute blickt man zurück und fragt sich unweigerlich: Was hätte daraus werden können?
Und warum ist es anders gekommen?
In 60 Sekunden blicke ich zurück auf diese Phase
zwischen Aufbruch, Technologie-Euphorie
und verpassten strategischen Chancen.
@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to"One workload I now support would cost an estimated £6000 per month to run on one of the large cloud providers, which would allow me to purchase the actual hardware in use four times over every year. But “spinning up an instance” today using free credits means you can worry about that cost later, whereas ordering a box from Dell means waiting two to three business days by which time the hackathon is over."
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io"Diskette" refers to the complete medium, aka the floppy disk inside the shell.
It's using a dimuitive because when IBM introduced 8" diskettes in the 1970s they were substantially smaller than hard disks at the time. (Note that hard disks back then often were removable and semi-portable, often 14" in size).
@puhuri@mastodon.socialMistä voi arvella olevansa vanha nörtti? No siitä, kun ensimmäisenä tulee mieleen jonkun IBM 3101 tai VT220:n päästäneen toimintasavut ulos.
@filmfacts@social.tchncs.deDa liegt doch ein einem Schrank ganz unten unter 8-Zoll-Disketten, #Shugart Drives, Backup-Maschinen mit Compact-Kassetten, #Magnetbändern, einzelnen Platten eines Festplattenstapel und einem halben Dutzend zerlegter IDE-Festplatten auch ein Pappkarton. Und darin eine unbenutzte
@schoedland@digitalcourage.socialA pretty period perfect fun song by
The British IBM
for you #retrocomputing #bbs nerds:
B B S
https://
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgibm selling off 9.0.0.0/8 ? i would have thought they’d want to keep it for their cloud service
https://social.bgp.tools/@transfers/statuses/01KDY17AENBWPQXEG3RSW7396R
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaIf you're willing to buy a 12Gb SAS controller for €25 and can tolerate a mere 1400MB/sec per spindle throughput, you can still get SSDs for €50/TB. Samsung (IBM) PM1633a Series 15.36TB, €779, eBay, Lithuania, free shipping.
HPE 6.4TB U.3 (PCIe) units are running around €62.50/TB, and slightly less in the UK.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIBM reports Q4 revenue up 12% YoY to $19.7B, vs. $19.2B est., and projects 2026 revenue growth and free cash flow above estimates; IBM jumps 8% after hours (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-28/ib…
@arXiv_csOS_bot@mastoxiv.pageHALO: A Fine-Grained Resource Sharing Quantum Operating System
John Zhuoyang Ye, Jiyuan Wang, Yifan Qiao, Jens Palsberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.07191 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.07191 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.07191
arXiv:2602.07191v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: As quantum computing enters the cloud era, thousands of users must share access to a small number of quantum processors. Users need to wait minutes to days to start their jobs, which only takes a few seconds for execution. Current quantum cloud platforms employ a fair-share scheduler, as there is no way to multiplex a quantum computer among multiple programs at the same time, leaving many qubits idle and significantly under-utilizing the hardware. This imbalance between high user demand and scarce quantum resources has become a key barrier to scalable and cost-effective quantum computing.
We present HALO, the first quantum operating system design that supports fine-grained resource-sharing. HALO introduces two complementary mechanisms. First, a hardware-aware qubit-sharing algorithm that places shared helper qubits on regions of the quantum computer that minimize routing overhead and avoid cross-talk noise between different users' processes. Second, a shot-adaptive scheduler that allocates execution windows according to each job's sampling requirements, improving throughput and reducing latency. Together, these mechanisms transform the way quantum hardware is scheduled and achieve more fine-grained parallelism.
We evaluate HALO on the IBM Torino quantum computer on helper qubit intense benchmarks. Compared to state-of-the-art systems such as HyperQ, HALO improves overall hardware utilization by up to 2.44x, increasing throughput by 4.44x, and maintains fidelity loss within 33%, demonstrating the practicality of resource-sharing in quantum computing.
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@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioRE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115854453599100931
And yes we had full-on IBM compatible PCs in this form factor even in the 1980s, e.g. Schneider Euro PC.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialLou Gerstner, a former IBM CEO and chairman credited with turning the company around, died at 83; IBM's market value rose from $29B to ~$168B during his tenure (Patrick Oster/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@filmfacts@social.tchncs.de @Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Alphabet plans to sell a rare 100-year sterling bond, as it steps up borrowing to fund its capex growth; IBM sold a 100-year bond back in 1996 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3260bc45-e09e-45a7-ae30-e55effbaf29b
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioAnd yes, all these sizes were referred to as "diskettes" (small disk), even the 8" one, even by their inventor, IBM.
Even in huge letters on the sleeve.
@jamie@boothcomputing.social#MyCPUTimeline
Oldest to newest from 1987 to about 2010:
MOS6502 (Apple IIe)
Intel 80286
Intel 80486SX
AMD 80486DX4
Cyrex 6x86 P200
Intel Pentium II (x2)
AMD Athlon MP (x2)
AMD Operon (x2)
IBM Power G4
Intel Core 2 Duo
Newer stuff isn't so interesting.
