It was s standard philosophy of teachings back in the 80s I was fortune enough to meet him and go to one of his seminars.
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McDonnell Douglas brought Demming in to try and turn the company around. The union fought most of the changes which ended with them being sold to Boeing.
Yeah, Fiorina had a different idea. Poor ol Ken just didn't see it coming. First the RISC computing and then Sun and on and on. I worked on PDP10s (DECSystem 10) in a few locations including the Bay Area. All Dec 10s were at interesting places. SRI, NASA Ames, Intel, Stanford and Stanford Medical Center and more. I also worked at the Boerfink Erwin NATO war HQ in Germany.
I never learned too much about the PDP 11. The phrase does still echo though my memory "please say hello". (RSTS)
The day HP became official was my last day. I was a program manager by then and HP had their own.
I was never in charge of any of the PDP-11's, but backed up the main guy in case he needed help. I worked at Amoco Production in Denver when the first of the PDP-11's got delivered. When they rolled the crate into our data center it looked like someone dropped it from a helicopter. When we opened the crate, things got worse. All of the boards were sitting at the bottom of the rack. DEC actually asked us to see if we could put it together again while they shipped out a replacement. Took us about a week to repair bent pins and rails, but once we plugged it in, it fired right up. Dec compensated us for our time and took it back to the test labs and studied it for years to find out why it still worked. It sat in one of their customer presentation centers until they went out of business as a model of reliability.
I spent some time in government installations when I worked at SGI. I had a semi-permanent visitor badge at NASA AMES.
Look up Future Flight Central. Very cool stuff. Any control tower in the world can be brought up in a couple of minutes.
Waaay! Off! Topic!
But hey, did you know HD used to use SGI supercomputers to tune their exhaust notes? They used the SGI Octanes to design several of the bikes. I would be interested to know if Buell used them too.
Very interesting, Mr bozo. SGI kicked our butts also. Our VP of marketing was promoted from field service.
Who was it? - Burrows? - sold NASA Ames a nut job. It was supposed to be 256 parallel computers but it ended up with only 64. I asked what the typical application would be; they said feed each processed the same problem and average the answers. Stanford Research Institute (SRI) was the most fun.