Is it just me or does the original look much better? I think it's the text size, but also the spacing of the new version just feels... wasted.

Yeah, IBM's design is fantastic.

> Unrelated - what does IBM do nowadays?

Cloud, AI (Watson), and quantum computing.

The visual design of their mainframes and supercomputers is amazing

If anyone is calculator shopping check out the Numworks, it’s a glorious little thing (and can be hacked with apps, Python, and custom firmware — the firmware part is only on older versions). It’s definitely worth checking out, plus it’s less expensive than most alternatives and easier to use. It can even emulate a TI (someone made an app for it). My only complaint is that it is yet to support different bases, but I suppose you could use Python for that.

Ugh… Don’t get me started on HTML in emails. What was so wrong with plaintext for emails? Vomit (meant to type Comic, but the typo is staying) Sans? Non-W3 compliant contrast ratios? Nineteen embedded images?

Seriously, if I want to send you the pictures from the beach I can do it with an attachment.

Plaintext works, but as the great David Bowie said: “If it works, it’s out of date.”