Lou Gerstner ruined IBM, and was CEO when it was decided to close the Kingston site. Lou Gerstner also stole my pension!!
@mylifein75sqft873 күн бұрын
I happen to agree that the cookie monster wasn't that good for IBM. Mario Cuomo could have helped when IBM said if they didn't get tax cuts, they would be forced to close Kingston. Cuomo thought IBM was bluffing. Crazy times.
@dojocho18948 күн бұрын
My Father worked at the poughkeepsie plant for the time then moved to the Ulster plant when it opened. He was in charge of the SAGE system for the US Military. He eventually moved to IBM Headquarters on Madison ave in NYC. I could go on for days about stories. One trivia question I will give out is when you drive around the building You will notice large rocks ringing the entire perimeter around the complex then there is the gates that open. does anyone know why they were put there?....any employees know? I do know the answer but it was a top guarded secret that most of the employees still dont know.
@mylifein75sqft878 күн бұрын
I remember when they put them there. It was after a truck ran into a building. I can't remember the date, but it was to make sure no one crashed into IBM.
@dojocho18947 күн бұрын
@@mylifein75sqft87 One of the secretaries was having affair with her Boss it was the husband that drove the vehicle into the front...he called prior and said he was going to kill him....they met over at Golds Gym which was the big hook up spot for IBMers My father ws on the phone that night talking to the Office in Manhattan and down in North Carolina. I hd a school friend who worked at the plant and his wife worked in another division from him she was having a affair also the parents were close friends of my parents....he was on the verge of doing the same ...but he stopped short. His brother owns a business today on rt 28
@JG-kv4oiАй бұрын
Bob, you're back! Good to see you out and about,it's been a long time. How's the Promaster doing? Montana Jerry
@mylifein75sqft87Ай бұрын
Hi Jerry! The Promaster is doing good. I'm doing well. I hope you are well! 👍
@12vLifeАй бұрын
House was a total loss? Insurance claim? did you ever rebuild? IBM and Research in Motion are lessons that no company can stay on top of the mountain forever.
@mylifein75sqft87Ай бұрын
Right
@ediangeles54712 ай бұрын
Resident of Saugerties here. The parents of IBM'ers enrolled their kids in public school for the most part. When they lost their employment, there was definitely ancillary fallout. Why would Mario Cuomo refuse a tax credit to IBM, which was known to have been in financial distress at the time? Because the typcial IBM'er was an educated Reagan conservative Republican, and I'm sure Mr. Cuomo consulted the voter rolls. One thing you don't mention, though, is that the reason IBM Kington exists was to avoid the NYC Port Authority point-of-origin tax. I was told that Poughkeepsie was within the radius where the port authoity still had jurisdiction to levy export tarrifs. But Kingston was far enough away that they avoided the Port Authority tax. So Mr. Cuomo may also have had a case of hemorrhoidal pain over that lost tax revenue as well. I have to laugh when I see videos about Amazon's spheres, or Apple's campus or some other tech company putting on airs to look green or innovative. They can't even hold one ounce of fart gas to this sliver of what IBM's total economy managed. They didn't miss the PC market, they simply couldn't conceive of managing a retail operation. And they were right. The amount of managerial ineptitude was staggering. I worked for IBM in NYC in the 1990s post implosion, and everything way CYA all the way. At that time, they were "innovating" in nano-tech, but they couldn't manage to get Lotus Notes to send email from a handheld device. Those projects were "make it or break it" and the smart money knew to avoid them IMHO, meaning the people who opted to run them were short timers who would play hot potato with them. Look what they did to Lotus. So many possibilities to turn Lotus Notes into a bona fide operating system that would approximate where microsoft is now: a database cow pile in the cloud where you can't find or organize anything. But is was "ahead of its time", meaning slow and constantly crashing on average hardware specs. In the end they were giving it away for free with Thinkpad laptops. Then they donated the codebase for the office suite to OpenOffice and Microsoft heard: "cha-ching". Anyway, in my tenure, we were given targets like in a socialist planned economy. We had to "innovate" to meet them because it was impossible otherwise. So we integrated large scale off-shore software development contracting to India. No joke, that was IBM's lasting gift to the economy - sending high tech overseas. OK, not going to prattle on.
@mylifein75sqft872 ай бұрын
That's lots of info. I'm thankful you took time to watch the video and write such a detailed comment.
@snodebbs2 ай бұрын
Impressive sir
@mylifein75sqft872 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@DJNoMask3 ай бұрын
Minivan = FWD Work truck = RWD it’s not a real 2500 or 3500 lol
@bryanmathew20793 ай бұрын
They Had REALLY GOOD Beef ChiLi Like 5 Years ago LOTS Of 🔝 Meat& The 😮BURGERS, Then ied😂backwards...Came iN
@nobullshoot3 ай бұрын
I worked jn po-town and talked to techs in Kinston in 92 and all the mainframes were shipping to warehouses. No customers! saw the writing on the wall took buyout and traveled Europe for 6 months. Should have sold all stock at top $170+, but kept sone as it crashed. Bad times watching company and community die.
@mylifein75sqft873 ай бұрын
It was hard watching IBM take the hits it received. I remember when they told us they had Apple on the ropes and they were going to get knocked out. Management couldn't have been more wrong. Look at where some is today.
@nobullshoot3 ай бұрын
worked on 308x and 3090. Lived in Port Ewen. 1985-1992. Great time going to IBM country club in Po-town. Started as a mainframe tech then to system programmer. On the IBM golf league , lots of education trips to Florida during spring break. Trained jn NCU and NCUA maintenance in Mn. Thought the gravy train would never end. But hay, in one year I retire with IBM retirement pension for rest of my live. Old School.
@mylifein75sqft873 ай бұрын
I was a mainframe tech too, 3033. I did system programming then application programming. Our paths were similar.
@ImNotADeeJay3 ай бұрын
I worked for IBM (Spain) 2010 to 2018, I heard that around 1992-1993 IBM was on the verge of bankruptcy, then Lou Gerstner straightened the situation a bit
@mylifein75sqft873 ай бұрын
Nice! As for Lou Gerstner (Cookie monster 🙂), I'm not sure because he was CEO when IBM went backwards.
@Brian_G20234 күн бұрын
Lou Gerstner ruined IBM, and Lou Gerstner stole my pension!!
@explorervango8804 ай бұрын
Welcome back, Bob. Worried about you while you were gone.
@mylifein75sqft874 ай бұрын
Thanks for your concern! I just didn't want to put my stuff out on social media. Who knows, I might Make some more videos. Take care!
@christopherstory21364 ай бұрын
We had a summer house outside of Accord NY from the late 60s to the mid 90s. I remember IBMs presence in Kingston and the impact after they left; especially the unemployment. This only compounded the economic situation in Ulster county when Channel Master/Imperial Chrade shuttered in Ellenville a few years before. Both towns suffered and coincidentally. IBM and CM moved to NC. Such a shame. (PS I ended up an IBM tech on S/3090's, AS400's and the I'll fated PS/2...) Thanks for your retrospective on IBM and its aftermath. *PS parts of it are being demolished for an EPA remidation and repurpose
@mylifein75sqft873 ай бұрын
Been to Accord lots of times. They had a racetrack there. Thanks for watching!
@christopherstory21363 ай бұрын
@mylifein75sqft87 love the racetrack too! Thanks again for sharing your memories!
@mylifein75sqft873 ай бұрын
You're welcome!
@spiritofalady3024 ай бұрын
Miss you
@mylifein75sqft874 ай бұрын
I'm glad I did the video.
@Jeph6294 ай бұрын
Dad ran a booming business in Kingston in the '50s and '60s alongside many pals hired at IBM who socialized and were service club partners and neighbors. Everyone knew IBM people! Then, a "group of politicians" hyper-taxed non-NYC New Yorkers to fund NYC's welfare world and forced the most productive demographic to points south. Including our family. And IBMers.
@mylifein75sqft874 ай бұрын
What business did your dad run?
@dawightg97875 ай бұрын
Great to see you posting again Bob !
@mylifein75sqft875 ай бұрын
Thanks! Thanks for watching and commenting!
@doughboysnerdly27455 ай бұрын
YESSSS HE'S FINALLY BACK!!!!
@mylifein75sqft875 ай бұрын
🙂🙂👍👍 it was fun doing that video
@doughboysnerdly27455 ай бұрын
@@mylifein75sqft87 You shoulda made it twenty minutes with more kiteboarding footage! 😀Very cool stuff
@mylifein75sqft875 ай бұрын
I didn't have that much footage. At that time, I was only able to go out and back. It would have been boring to have more footage. Now I can do a transitions and I ride a lot better. Still more might be boring. Thanks for watching and commenting
@VinnieCampagnaWaitingGame5 ай бұрын
Awesome job!
@mylifein75sqft875 ай бұрын
Thanks Vinnie!
@jxitc6 ай бұрын
such a pity you can only purchase junk from China, where we chinese people enjoy good quality with affordable price in China. And making things even sad, is that even the junk Chinese product can beat all other options to get your buying.
@mylifein75sqft876 ай бұрын
Not all things from China are junk, just some things you buy from Amazon. I was happy to replace that TV mount.
@russelloakes47956 ай бұрын
Thanks Bob!! You put a smile on my face. Keep up the good .......well, i cant say work so PLAY. Hope to see you soon in Kingston, Russ & Carol .
@mylifein75sqft876 ай бұрын
You're welcome Russ and Carol! I'm glad you liked it. It took a long time to be able to do that
@annetteblackmon95786 ай бұрын
Good to see you 😊 Hope to see you at the memorial at sunset today
@mylifein75sqft876 ай бұрын
Thanks for commenting! I didn't know anything about the memorial. What was it?
@annetteblackmon95786 ай бұрын
@@mylifein75sqft87 It used to be called the Passover, but after Jesus died, it became the memorial as a remembrance of Jesus Christ death
@RollingEarthShip6 ай бұрын
Bobsky, I can do that with my eyes closed, but regardless, good job. 😁🖖🏻👍🏻🚐🏊🏻♂️
@mylifein75sqft876 ай бұрын
I should be able to too. Problem is, I still have to watch the kite sometimes. Thanks Loui!
@iFriendofYours6 ай бұрын
There he is! Good to hear of ya!!
@mylifein75sqft876 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching and commenting!
@Cure4pd6 ай бұрын
thumbs up, lol
@mylifein75sqft872 ай бұрын
Thanks Jim!
@jimtomassetti59096 ай бұрын
Looking good Bob, now you are hooked for sure!
@mylifein75sqft876 ай бұрын
Thanks Jim! I guess it takes one to know one. Being hooked, that is.
@Cure4pd6 ай бұрын
good to hear from
@mylifein75sqft876 ай бұрын
Thanks Jim!
@choossuck76536 ай бұрын
Hey Paul, nice to see you buddy. This really put a smile on my face today and I really needed it today 🙏🙏🙏
@mylifein75sqft876 ай бұрын
I'm glad I made you happy! Still, my name is Bob 🙂. Thanks for watching and commenting
@Vitamin-Q6 ай бұрын
Let's Go! Bob
@mylifein75sqft876 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@brianmcqueen6416 ай бұрын
Great job Bob!!
@mylifein75sqft876 ай бұрын
Thanks Bri!
@vanlifeofcaine6 ай бұрын
Awesome video. Good to see you doing them again! Actually visiting where I meet you 5yrs ago this week! ✌️✌️✌️
@mylifein75sqft876 ай бұрын
Nice! Red rocks is nice! First video in a while!
@raymonddriggers6 ай бұрын
Thanks for compact shower pool, aka pet pool!
@mylifein75sqft876 ай бұрын
You're welcome! Glad I could help out Raymond!
@raymonddriggers6 ай бұрын
Damn Bob it’s been a long long long long long longtime!
@mylifein75sqft876 ай бұрын
Sure has been!
@kevinmcclainsr.27066 ай бұрын
Your story is quite similar to mine! I grew up in Jeannette Pa in West Moreland County and moved to New York. While growing up in Jeannette my best friend Ronnie Evans moved from Jeannette and moved to Trafford. Ronnie was a great little baseball player. Him and I grew up on the baseball field in Jeannette. Ronnie went on to become a teacher and a baseball coach at Penn-Trafford high school. Small world!
@mylifein75sqft876 ай бұрын
Yes it is Kevin. A small world 🙂
@kevinmcclainsr.27066 ай бұрын
@@mylifein75sqft87 as youngster in Jeannette I played football for the Jeannette Midgets back in the 60s, ‘63-‘67. At that time Penn and Trafford didn’t have any midget teams. All those kids had to come to Jeannette and play for the Jeannette Midgets. I played with some great football players from Penn and Trafford. When Penn and Trafford joined together Jeannette Midgets lost all those players. In 1967 Penn-Trafford started their own Midget teams, The Penn-Trafford Indians. One name stands out in my mind who was a great running back I played on the Jeannette Midgets with then in ‘67 he played for Penn-Trafford his last name is Martini. This kid could run the ball. He was big fast and elusive. Those were the days.😊
@mylifein75sqft876 ай бұрын
@@kevinmcclainsr.2706 yeah, Martini had big legs, so he wasn't easy to bring down. He could hit a baseball far too.
@kevinmcclainsr.27066 ай бұрын
@@mylifein75sqft87 yea I know! As well as playing with him on the Jeannette Midgets. I had to play against him when he played with the Penn-Trafford Indians 13 year old team. He ran all over us. My friend Ronnie Evans father was Mayor of Trafford I do believe. I remember as a youngster Ronnie’s father played softball in Crabtree. He was a great player too.
@fantasytriangle71197 ай бұрын
I wish there was more guys like you to film more memorable moments in Trafford or other places in Pa.
@didierduplantier83597 ай бұрын
I worked there from 1989 to 1992 before lucky enough to get a transfer to Austin. The glitters wore off when they started laying off people. A few years later they got rid of the pension. Many of us bailed out then because we finally realized that loyalty doesn’t go both ways. The best decision I made was quitting IBM for a startup
@mylifein75sqft877 ай бұрын
Good for you!
@doughboysnerdly27457 ай бұрын
will you ever upload another video? you hinted at it a long time ago, but I feel like if you were going to, you would have by now. you became a part of our lives bob! YOU TRULY DONT UNDERSTAND HOW MUCH YOU ARE MISSED!
@mylifein75sqft877 ай бұрын
I'm really sorry! I really have very minimal social media presence these days. Things changed in this world during COVID. That coupled with getting sick and not creating any videos, I got out of the habit of creating.
@mikeloebbaka76998 ай бұрын
Hey Bluie, it's 4 am. Sunday morning, and you came to mind. Saw this video. Hope all has gotten better.
@mylifein75sqft878 ай бұрын
Good to hear from you! I'm much better now. I hope you're well.
@doughboysnerdly27458 ай бұрын
will you ever upload another video? you hinted at it a long time ago, but I feel like if you were going to, you would have by now. what a bummer!@@mylifein75sqft87
@davidvanscyoc75018 ай бұрын
Your video was funny! Now I'll have to add this to my list. Going in this area Memorial Day weekend by car from Indianapolis. What month was this recorded??
@mylifein75sqft878 ай бұрын
I'm pretty sure it was September or October. It's a great loop. Start at Moab and end back there.
@FrancisBeanBlades9 ай бұрын
I'm living here now, just finishing my second month. It's a temporary apartment while we house hunt. The funny thing is, I've been loving every minute here, so who knows? It might wind up being permanent! Thanks for the walkaround and the history! I see it all on the thrice-daily dog walks, so it's nice to know the history. A bunch of things are still changing. The pizzeria (Dom's) is still healthy; the old drugstore across from it is now condemned. The old bank is an empty lot, and I'd wondered what used to be there. Parente's is now Club 80's, some sort of nightclub, and Esther's Treasures next door is now a pet groomer. Rumphshaker's is now Krick's and is one of the busier places in town.
@thom_lester9 ай бұрын
My wife and i swapped out our stock PM tires with stock sized BFG KO2s within a 100 miles of purchase back in 2017. We went places that move vannies can only dream of. We now have Falken Wildpeak AT3Ws and the ride is much more comfortable on the highway, yet off pavement is just as capable IMO. You might do some research on the AT3Ws use by others in snowy conditions, they are recommended.
@RICKROCKERTHEORIGIONAL Жыл бұрын
Ibm somers same deal. Beautiful architecture nothing being done. Suppose to be a private school?
@mylifein75sqft87 Жыл бұрын
I've been to IBM Somers before. So sad what happened to IBM.
@christopherbradley5575 Жыл бұрын
That other youtuber is flat out wrong. I've had rv's my whole life and have been full timing almost 6 years now and NOTHING gets more use than my microwave. This lifestyle doesn't even make sense without a microwave. Great video. Awesome van.
@mylifein75sqft87 Жыл бұрын
I'm glad you use yours. I hardly ever use mine. A couple times a year.
@ibacook Жыл бұрын
Please make some new videos I miss them
@mylifein75sqft87 Жыл бұрын
I've been thinking about making a video or 2. I'm tired up pretty much this week, but I'll try to find time.
@choossuck7653 Жыл бұрын
MISS YA BOBBY🔥🔥💀
@TheZimmermans-c1p Жыл бұрын
Hey fella I agree with a lot of what you lived and learned. It’s the same for me. We rolled down Short St. We had a watch out and typically somehow Trafford people listened to stop for the kids. The B Y Park the grants that were written by my dad and several members of the community to create a better environment for the whole community. Donations were appreciated and loved. I’m glad to see community members mentioned everywhere.
@ibacook Жыл бұрын
Bob my name is also Bob. I asked a about your daughter Kit,I am from Kingston Iam a backslider from my faith.I was wondering when your in town what church you go to I am looking for something
@ibacook Жыл бұрын
Bob are you related to Christina goes by Kat she made a movie ib Kingston NY
@mylifein75sqft87 Жыл бұрын
Yeah! She's my daughter. Goes by Kit.
@vitormorita491 Жыл бұрын
Where can I find this to purchase?
@mylifein75sqft87 Жыл бұрын
I looked recently and I don't think you can buy it any more. I bought it at the Tampa super RV show
@user-mk9pn4bj1n Жыл бұрын
I have a 2018 3500 with about 60,000 miles. I was very disappointed when I first started driving it anywhere but paved roads because it would have traction problems on the slightest gravel, sandy or wet roads. Since replacing the stock tires with a higher end Michelin all weather tire (not all retain) I have improved mileage and traction. We've been in all kinds of conditions and now problems now so I am convinced it was just the tires. Factory tires were hard as rock and terrible tread design. They were made to deliver goods in city conditions and give fleet owners durability at lower cost. They ere not made to go off pavement. Neither is any big van.
@mylifein75sqft87 Жыл бұрын
Yeah, those factory tires aren't that good. May will be the problem. I replaced my originals with the same tires. Next time will be different.
@jvsmeds Жыл бұрын
Does anyone have an update about Bob?
@mylifein75sqft87 Жыл бұрын
I'm doing well. I haven't posted much since COVID. I guess I'm trying to keep a lower profile. I may do a video at some point to discuss it in detail.
@jvsmeds Жыл бұрын
@@mylifein75sqft87 Glad to hear from you and that you are feeling good. After I purchased my Promaster I was looking for videos of doing my own shelving and stumbled upon your channel to watch your build to see if it could have any ideas for me to cover the walls and such. I miss seeing your travel videos looking forward to another chapter in your travels!
@mylifein75sqft87 Жыл бұрын
@@jvsmeds thanks for your kind words. I hope I was of help to you when you built your van. It was the hardest thing I ever did and I did a lot of stuff. Maybe someday I'll make some more videos. Although I'm still in the van, I don't travel as much.