[vcf-midatlantic] Internal Amdahl T-Shirt preservation

Jeffrey Brace jeffrey at vcfed.org
Mon Jan 17 16:17:29 UTC 2022


On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 4:28 PM Adam Michlin via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:

> And here's the history behind the shirt in my father's own words
> (although we're still trying to figure out the significance of the
> bees):
>
>
Based on the story, I suspect that the bees were another code name that was
used after Hawk, but before the Lynx. Or they represent the "sting of
defeat" by IBM. IBM was feeling the sting of being one upped by Amdahl by
getting out the product earlier than them.


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