[H-GEN] RFC: SCO

David Seikel won_fang at yahoo.com.au
Wed Jun 18 04:19:43 EDT 2003


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 --- Greg Black <gjb at gbch.net> wrote: 
> 
> [1] My past history with IBM goes back to the 1960's, when they
>     decided not to employ me as a programmer because they had
>     detected a lack of suitable corporate discipline in me.  In
>     retrospect, I'm glad I missed out on that job; and IBM were
>     right about me.  But I was resentful that they chose to
>     reject somebody who had obtained the highest ever score on
>     their aptitude test on the basis of a personality defect.

I also had obtained the highest ever score on the IBM aptitude test, and
was rejected for the same reason.  I did this in the 1980's though, so your
record lasted a good twenty years B-).

Hmm, another twenty years has passed, time for some other geek to claim the prize.

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