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K. McAleese said on June 1st, 2009 at 9:04 am

I must admit, when I saw the slides you linked to, my eyeballs were bombarded by the interposed words in opposing colors. Thank you for not employing such typography in your funny remix!

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Lister Sage said on June 1st, 2009 at 9:16 am

If only I could use these as desktops at my IT job.

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TA said on June 1st, 2009 at 10:31 am

… ahh, hell, i should know who that is. Who is that?

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MarkS said on June 1st, 2009 at 10:48 am

Damn, I’ve been working in IT, and watching The Wire.

This is making me lose my mind…

You writing for the next season of the show?

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Lister Sage said on June 1st, 2009 at 11:16 am

These remind me of that episode of Harvey Birdman were they parody employee orientation movies. One of my favorites from the third season.

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Sage Freehaven said on June 1st, 2009 at 11:38 am

This is the best post of the month so far.

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Zifnab said on June 1st, 2009 at 12:00 pm

Word to your tech support’s mother.

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Z said on June 1st, 2009 at 12:39 pm

Kevin Spacey sells computers?

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RobotKeaton said on June 1st, 2009 at 12:46 pm

I thought these were posters for Woody Allen movies at first glance.

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Randy B. said on June 1st, 2009 at 1:10 pm

That. Was. Awesome.

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Broadwing said on June 1st, 2009 at 1:17 pm

Nerd fanboy mode go!

…one wonders if the Eames Brothers had a hand in the original of this. They did a lot of work for IBM.

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Doktor Puppykicker said on June 1st, 2009 at 2:47 pm

The “Wire” reference makes me very, very happy.

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Jason said on June 1st, 2009 at 3:17 pm

Does anybody else have a craving for Herbert Kornfield’s columns in The Onion? Too bad he’s been dead for a few years.

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Transbuddha » Archive » IBM meet MightyGodKing said on June 1st, 2009 at 6:15 pm

[...] are too good not to share. This collection of hilarious slides (as you can from this example definitely fall into the NSFW category) was inspired by this 1975 IBM [...]

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Robin said on June 1st, 2009 at 11:06 pm

I miss Kornfeld, but this more than makes up for it…

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Vance said on June 2nd, 2009 at 11:28 pm

Excellent photos, but given the era shouldn’t that be “data processing ain’t for no goddamned pussy-asses”?

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Doctor Slack said on June 4th, 2009 at 9:40 pm

“You don’t start none, there won’t be none” is pitch perfect.

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Sage said on June 22nd, 2009 at 12:18 am

I also would have accepted “The king stay the king”

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