Ah, yes, I remember it well

Whether you know it or not, June 23, 1969 was a very important day. On that day IBM (International Business Machines) "unbundled" its software and services from its hardware. Up until that day, if you bought IBM hardware, you also were required to buy IBM software. With a stroke of the pen at IBM's corporate headquarters in Armonk, Westchester County, New York, and a little help from a lawsuit initiated by the United States Department Of Justice, the computer software industry was born.

And the rest, as they say, is history.

I thought you would want to know.

After being honorably discharged from a four-years-and-nine-months stint in the United Stated Air Force, during which time I had received training as a computer programmer, I was hired by the IBM Corporation on November 1, 1965, and began working for it/them in Poughkeepsie, New York. Almost exactly three years later, the company transferred me to its brand new faciliy (evidence: we were housed in temporary trailers for months until the new building was built) in Boca Raton, Florida.

On February 1, 1969, I flew to Stockholm, Sweden, and worked at the IBM facility on Lidingö until March 1, at which time I flew back to Boca Raton (and, boy, were my arms tired).

The next big date in my work history for I've Been Moved is the "unbundling announcement" (as it was called) on June 23, 1969. Later events inclue my transfer to Atlanta, Georgia in 1975 and my resignation from the company in 1978, and my re-entrance into the company in 1997, and my retirement from the company in 2000. None of this is probably of any interest to anyone but me.

As a matter of record, I also posted about the unbundling in two other posts, in 2014 and 2016. You can read those posts if you type "unbundling" into the search box at the top left of the blog's header. You may even learn what a troglodyte is.

Onward and upward to more important things, or as Buzz Lightyear often said, "To infinity and beyond!"

That is, Ta-Ta For Now.