Jim Allchin Quotes
I continue to see a healthy PC market, very healthy. The machines will continue to morph; you'll see smaller machines that have more capability.
Allchin, Jim. Interview by Michael Kanellos. "Q&A: Jim Allchin." CNET News, CBS Interactive, 2004.
He was one of the fathers of modern computer science and the first serious programmer. Before there were computers generally available, he had programmed special IBM machines to crack the German’s “uncrackable” Enigma code.
The Computer was invented and fabricated by Charles Babbage and was called an “Analytical Engine” by him.
In the1969 mission to the moon, the lunar module control computer flashed a Program Alarm warning message, and the Mission Control officer Steve Bates, with less than 30 seconds to go, had to make a decision whether to abort the module landing or continue. He spoke to Garman, who concluded that since the message did not repeat, that the message was most likely a spurious message—a false alarm. German told him to go ahead when most others wanted to abort. As Garman was the most familiar staff member with the software, Bates followed his lead and continued the landing. Garman was right and he became known as “The Man who saved the Moon Landing”.
George W. Bush and his White House Staff were of a generation that only thiought of a personal computer as a Word Processing and e-mailing machine. In the 8 years of the Bush Presidency, there were dramatic and dynamic breagthouhs on PCs and digital technology. But they percieved no need for anything more, The younger, much more technoplogically savy Obama and his staff were shocked that the headquarters of the most important leader in the world was so far behind the times in their digital capability, The White House Website that was being used was that developed in teh first Clinton Administration which then was the state of the art. But more than 15 years later, it was ancient and decrepid. The Obama Team leaped into the future with a very sophisticated new website whcih was the backbone of Obama's highly sophisticated digital communications strategy.
James Edward Allchin (born 1951, Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States) is an American guitarist, computer scientist, and philanthropist. He is a former Microsoft executive.
