A recent thread from @bitsavers has added another computer history/memoir to my list (Dave Packard's "The HP Way"); see https://oldbytes.space/@bitsavers/109622471689143002
(Aside: Here's a positive use case for QTs - referring to but not hijacking threads)
I preemptively wonder if the corporate hagiographies are much less insightful than one is led to believe. Aren't case studies just business fairy tales set in far-gone idyllic lands not beset by the modern pestilence of product managers, VCs, oligarchs, and SAP?
@arclight @bitsavers I'd love to see a book about how MBA ideology took HP from a world-leading engineering firm to little more than a overpriced printer-ink scam.
@rrmutt @arclight @bitsavers Definitely some truth to that, but google Multi-Jet Fusion and what role it plays in advanced engineering today
