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To: XBrit who wrote (175476)	1/7/2009 12:27:29 AM
From: John Koligman	Respond to of 306849

Small world, my wife might have been in the same building with you that day... She worked in sample analysis using electron microscopy for quite a few years, I spent 18 years debugging mainframe IO code... We made it through all the layoffs and some years later ended up quitting to do our own thing, trading for me and consulting for her... Best regards, John

To: XBrit who wrote (175476)	1/7/2009 12:50:05 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

One of the places I was laid off from, we noticed we couldn't access the server. Then, some beefy armed security people came in and instructed us to "put our hands in the air and back away from the keyboards"! Apparently, management was afraid that we'd planted easily triggered viruses that we magical techies could launch with a keystroke on getting laid off!

To: XBrit who wrote (175476)	1/7/2009 4:30:03 AM
From: energyplay	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

IBM semiconductor has re-invented itself to a degree as the major supplier of custom graphics chips for video games. They are in the Sony PlayStation, Xbox, and Wii.

To: XBrit who wrote (175476)	1/7/2009 2:15:10 PM
From: renovator	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

One of my pals got whacked in that purge--IBM scratched a brand new 1 billion dollar line. My friend's package was pretty good, but a couple of years later they had new product lines running at East Fishkill and made very sweet offers to get him to return. He did after they assured him of all his previous seniority, benefits, etc and a lot more money. That was several years ago and he has been full bore ever since. It will be interesting to see how that division fares this time.