There is an interesting segment of the film "IBM Centennial Film: They Were There - People who changed the way the world works" that talks about the initial UPC process. (The entire video is worth watching, lots of good stories)

https://youtu.be/p2KQiX57TT8?t=695

Wow, fantastic video, thanks for sharing!

Seeing this video, I can't help but feel a bit sad for how far IBM slipped from its former days of glory :( And not only IBM, but also places like Xerox PARC and Bell Labs. We owe _so much_ of modern life to these places.

And yet, whatever "secret sauce" each had seems to have been lost (at least to them, I don't doubt there are other similar places today, although I don't know them).

I hope/assume there are similar places today. Nothing is forever and every institution has a lifespan.

Though I couldn't tell you where the current ones are.

Part of the sauce was high profits, and patent monopoly or actual monopoly power.

Google and Microsoft are today's high profit equivalent, perhaps with or without the patent monopoly.

I work very close to the Pittsburgh skinny building (commercial, not residential) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinny_Building. For some reason it gets a full street number, no 1/2 address at all.

Season 7 of Dirty Jobs on the Discovery Channel showed this in action (I still enjoy reruns of Dirty Jobs)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dirty_Jobs_episodes#...

Here's some video - not sure if it's that episode or something different.

https://youtu.be/9IqHCVRbidA

That video isn't the Dirty Jobs video but it does show the same room and process (just without all of the Dirty Jobs humorous commentary)

ha! Video title is

MONEY LAUNDERING AT THE WESTIN ST. FRANCIS

I love Dirty Jobs. I don't understand the criticisms of the show.

What criticisms?

Mike Rowe, the guy from Dirty Jobs, got involved with some weird online university that promotes a lot of conspiratorial crap / climate change denial / things like that, and used his fame to promote that stuff. You can imagine some people aren't happy about it.

But I definitely loved the series.

I'm running a Touch Bar MBP connected to the LG UltraFine 5K with no visible problems FullScreen or not on the LG panel.

Resolution is set for "Default for display" and I run Flux. Initially I had some issues with the monitor that went away when I got a new USB-C cable. Perhaps that would help...?

Feedbin[0] for managing and viewing from laptop, Reeder for viewing on iOS[1]. There's 75+ feeds in my Feedbin account - a few need removed but I'm sure I have a few to add as well.

[0] http://feedbin.com/

[1] http://reederapp.com/ios/