I wish thinkpad had been viable as a retained business. I've run pre and post leonovo, I liked pre better mostly, but you have to resist thinking anachronistically since the x1 carbons are excellent.

I think absorbing redhat was interesting.

I think IBM is possibly the only Dinosaur which could have swallowed Oracle for a better outcome for everyone but that might have meant sun died hard.

Winchester Disks and RISC architectures. Plasma displays.

I never had nuch interest in their mainframes but they scaled and many people depended on them for massive delivery. I had a lot of time for people from IBM research. They are very good. ETH Zurich and IBM go back a long way. IBM and the IETF go back a long way.

I still miss DEC.