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The Great Wall of VAX

A long time ago I worked for a small engineering firm that produced and sold Digital Image Processing systems.

The (un)luck of the Irish

I have been in the telecommunications business for almost thirty years now, but I still smile when I think back to the late eighties and one particular support event for a high tech firm.

Tune in, turn on…

I was working as a summer student for a company upgrading client software. One day I arrived back in my office after to find a nasty voice mail message from a manager that I had finished updating.

Underwear, beer and fraud

Do you remember the days when Ma Bell would charge $1.00 per minute to call Vancouver from Toronto? I do and it was about that time I encountered an unforgettable character in the Information Technology department.

Very, very floppy disks

In 1979, soon after my partner, my wife, and I had opened one of the first computer retail stores in Western Canada, we were going great guns.

Word to the wise: it’s your fault

Back in 1965 I applied for a job in Regina firm's accounting department, as accounting is what I was educated in, and was given an aptitude test.

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I would like to commend John Pickett for his view that good programmers are an asset to be cherished, and are not simply another liability on a balance sheet like office supplies.

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David F. Poirier was recently named President, Enterprise Services and CIO of MDS Inc., Toronto, a provider of medical services, products and instruments. Mr....

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