Hi: Arstechnica has an article about, and a full copy of an 1937 edition of the IBM Song Book. http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/08/tripping-through-ibms-astonishingly-... Cheers Brian Randell School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU EMAIL = Brian.Randell@ncl.ac.uk<mailto:Brian.Randell@ncl.ac.uk> PHONE = +44 191 222 7923 URL = http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/people/brian.randell
People really need to be more careful about unearthing things like this. The Computer Science department at my university is talking about writing their own songbook. I've never been able to get them interested in computer history, but that songbook has people all abuzz! -- Ian On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 7:43 PM, Len Shustek <len@shustek.com> wrote:
At 03:32 AM 8/31/2014, Brian Randell wrote:
Arstechnica has an article about, and a full copy of an 1937 edition of the IBM Song Book.
ttp://arstechnica.com/business/2014/08/tripping-through-ibms-astonishingly-insane-1937-corporate-songbook/ <http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/08/tripping-through-ibms-astonishingly-insane-1937-corporate-songbook/>
You can hear a few of the songs at http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/music/music_clips.html and see a 4-minute general-interest movie inspired by them, about the IBM culture generally, at http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/punched-cards/2/12/2211
-- Len Shustek
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Hi Ian: On 1 Sep 2014, at 05:21, Ian S. King <isking@uw.edu> wrote:
People really need to be more careful about unearthing things like this. The Computer Science department at my university is talking about writing their own songbook.
About time! :-) See: http://history.cs.ncl.ac.uk/anniversaries/40th/webbook/songs/ (I should explain that what are now two separate entities, the School of Computing Science and the Newcastle University IT service, started out as and for many years were a single entity called the Computing Laboratory.) We have proud history of “corporate” songs here at Newcastle, though you’ll see that they feature irony rather than so-called “fellowship” :-) Cheers Brian
I've never been able to get them interested in computer history, but that songbook has people all abuzz! -- Ian
On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 7:43 PM, Len Shustek <len@shustek.com> wrote: At 03:32 AM 8/31/2014, Brian Randell wrote:
Arstechnica has an article about, and a full copy of an 1937 edition of the IBM Song Book. ttp://arstechnica.com/business/2014/08/tripping-through-ibms-astonishingly-insane-1937-corporate-songbook/
You can hear a few of the songs at http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/music/music_clips.html and see a 4-minute general-interest movie inspired by them, about the IBM culture generally, at http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/punched-cards/2/12/2211
-- Len Shustek
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