OT: IBM exports 4730 programming jobs from US

[Les Cargill]

Just heard on NPR's "Nightly Business Report" that IBM shares fell on
the announcement that IBM is exporting 4730 programming jobs from the
US to India and China.

I see the handwriting on the wall, and it spells: M-c-D-O-N-A-L-D-S.

I think this pretty much sums it up:

http://www.despair.com/potential.html

 

[Lew Pitcher]

Just heard on NPR's "Nightly Business Report" that IBM shares fell on
the announcement that IBM is exporting 4730 programming jobs from the
US to India and China.

I didn't realize that IBM /had/ any 4730 programmers left. That's one old
machine, and was superceded long ago. I remember working on it's successor, the
4731.

I see the handwriting on the wall, and it spells: M-c-D-O-N-A-L-D-S.

Why? Does McDonalds have programmers for the 4730 around? I didn't think that
they had any 4730s left in their DP shop.


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[glen herrmannsfeldt]

I didn't realize that IBM /had/ any 4730 programmers left. That's one
old machine, and was superceded long ago. I remember working on it's
successor, the 4731.

That was my first thought on reading a follow up post, and I had
to go back to the original to see what it really meant.

Why? Does McDonalds have programmers for the 4730 around? I didn't think
that they had any 4730s left in their DP shop.

Is the 4730 related to the 7030?

By the way, did you know that the 650 had decimal floating point
arithmetic? I don't think the 7030 did, but the 7070 may have.

-- glen

 

[Mark McIntyre]

I didn't realize that IBM /had/ any 4730 programmers left. That's one old
machine, and was superceded long ago. I remember working on it's successor, the
4731.

You sir are under arrest for apostrophe abuse.

Why? Does McDonalds have programmers for the 4730 around? I didn't think that
they had any 4730s left in their DP shop.

And why do you think the burgers taste like chopped up card?

 

[Peter Shaggy Haywood]

Off topic posting goofball Richard was jivin' on Tue, 16 Dec 2003
17:22:02 GMT in comp.lang.c.
Re: OT: IBM exports 4730 programming jobs from US's a bad trip! Dig
it!

No, I was just posting a news item.

But why did you post it? It doesn't belong here.

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