For those who are too young to know or have experienced it, this long article may be interesting. For those who are old enough, it's nostalgic, but my word how far IBM as fallen.
https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,949693,00.html
Thanks for sharing!
By 1983 I had been an IBM programmer for 15 years. Even then I realized that much of the code, and many of the ongoing projects I worked on, would never make it out the door. Can anyone remember Distributed Systems? There was one "re-org" where we were told we'd be developing a "Super Computer". After funding and staffing it, they realized they couldn't even define "Super Computer"!
I stuck it out until 1992. The final straw was Chairman Akers saying we were letting him down by spending too much time around the water coolers and not working hard enough. This was the same Salesman Akers who came to fame when the S/360 was the only show in town, and his "work effort" was writing down orders from customers clamoring to buy it.
The Time article was an interesting read, but certainly not a prediction for where IBM was headed.