T-Day debriefing

[HiredGunn]

If people around me did not make a big deal out of T-day it would have come/gone without notice on my part.

What happened to JTGalt ?

What happened to that guy with house on lake outside chicago with lots of ducks, seemed he was always doing well consulting at various shops and had started to market his own software appliance ?

[The Gorn]

What happened to that guy with house on lake outside chicago with lots of ducks, seemed he was always doing well consulting at various shops and had started to market his own software appliance ?

If you mean Dennis, he's out there.

[Origisaurus]

It's a strange season, between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Nobody does any real work.

Standard auto industry gag - the last business day of the year is the Friday before Thanksgiving.  After that people are partying, using up vacation time, or busting ass to finish projects and accept interruptions like a wounded bear.

[Origisaurus]

Drift,  tangential, orthogonal or quantum leap.

An observation, not a complaint.

[TRexx]

It's a strange season, between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Nobody does any real work.

Standard auto industry gag - the last business day of the year is the Friday before Thanksgiving.  After that people are partying, using up vacation time, or busting ass to finish projects and accept interruptions like a wounded bear.

When I used to do performance measurement and capacity planning for a timesharing vendor, we knew that peak demand for the year was at 2PM on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving.   Usage dropped off steadily until January 3 (January 2 was spent rehashing the Bowl games) when it started picking up again.  We scheduled all our major upgrades during this period.

[Walter Mitty]

If it's not too nosy, when did you work for a timesharing vendor?  I did that briefly, in 1969-70.  I left to return to MIT.

[TRexx]

If it's not too nosy, when did you work for a timesharing vendor?  I did that briefly, in 1969-70.  I left to return to MIT.

Actually two. The first was First Data in Waltham, MA.  I worked part time in the NYC office  when I was in college in 1976 and 1977, then full time from Sept 77 to June 78.  After our computer room burned down, (I can testify that when you drop a PDP-10 from the 4th floor to the basement, it does not reboot) we were bought by ADP Network Services. Things got ugly and I bailed.

Then in 1980 the consulting company I worked for, Lambda Technology, was bought by GE Information Services Co in Rockville, MD. Their primary product ran on Honeywell machines, but they started a new venture using IBM mainframes which was what I worked on.  For the next few years I did a few projects with them. Then things got ugly and I bailed to another small consulting company.

 

[Walter Mitty]

Did you ever know Dave Friesen or Jim Taylor at First Data?

[TRexx]

Did you ever know Dave Friesen or Jim Taylor at First Data?

Don't think so. I was in NYC and didn't have a lot of contact with the folks in Waltham. And when I went full time after the ADP take over, a lot of the old timers had been purged.