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dworin on June 3, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Autodesk’s John Walker Explained HP and IBM in 199...

I love that he uses "Spacely's Sprockets' as his example customer. I used to always use companies from cartoons in the case studies I made up for trainings, but I reached a point a few years ago where the people in the trainings had never heard of the companies I was using (Spacely's Sprockets, Omni Consumer Products, Slate Construction Company).

gregpilling on June 4, 2015 | [–]

use Cyberdyne Systems, Skynet etc. Just modernize to movies in the last few years :)

victorhooi on June 4, 2015 | [–]

I get the other two (Jetsons and Robocop) (They predate me, but Google FTW! Lol). but where does Slate Construction Company come from?

qbrass on June 4, 2015 | [–]

Probably Slate Rock and Gravel Company from The Flintstones.

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