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Ancient IBM wisdom (from 1979) that the bosses just straight up promptly forgot (media.piefed.social)
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Apparently a page from an internal IBM training manual. Some further attempts at source it

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[โ€“] borth@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

But a computer works for "free" so "not being held accountable" is even better!!

[โ€“] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

Midrange might, but mainframe users pay ongoing amounts to IBM for however much compute they use for the life of the machine