Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Side Effect Of Apricots



History of ITC Italian, mediocre and devoured by an insatiable parasite.
La storia vista da me comincia con alcune lettere che avevo diligentemente dattilografato e spedito ai sei big dell’informatica presenti in Italia. A quei tempi ero uno sparuto geometrino che sognava di poter fare una cosa per cui nessuno mi aveva preparato e neanche consigliato.

Nelle sei lettere chiedevo quanto avrei dovuto pagare per usare un computer.




of computer science at that time I knew nothing and had no money to pay for any studies (in fact I had to work a bit to help 'the family budget)

was truly a mission impossible and I think that persons who have received those letters on the other side of the fence must have been quite surprised because at that time in the world of computers there is CONFIDENTIAL and accessed through expensive courses for employees of companies. All I said kindly, however, and even a kind Eng. Spider del'IBM called me by phone that I had indicated, that the studio where I worked. But the call came with these great leaders and I virtually had no way to have a real conversation.

That was many years ago has nothing to do with the story you want to tell you except to establish the beginning.
The following years led to some progress in computers and was one in which after years of machine language assembler and then finally came the second generation languages \u200b\u200bFortran, Cobol, and so on.
The Italian computer at that time was sharply divided between management and scientific worlds divided and opposed. Users outside the universities were completely focused on the management il che significa uno stuolo di dottori commercialisti ( pochi ) moltissimi ragionieri e poi altri che in un modo o nell’altro entravano nel processo.
L’avvento dell’RPG completava la cultura informatica italiana consolidava RPG e COBOL come un assoluto standard che avrebbe resistito fino ai nostri giorni.
I sistemisti a quei tempi venivano presi dalle aziende, addestrati e poi messi in servizio, cosi come i programmatori.
Che tipo di cultura si era formata ? Una cultura limitata, un sottobosco di società che agganciavano giovani con la speranza di un buon lavoro facendo pagare poche, cattive e approssimative nozioni prezzi inenarrabili a cui i poveri neofiti si sottoponevano pagando certe volte rate per anni.
Le università a quei tempi non avevano facoltà d’informatica tranne  Pisa che costituiva il sogno difficile da raggiungere per molti.
I manager a quei tempi facevano solo i manager, non sentivano per niente il bisogno di avere una cultura specifica che delegavano.
Questa si può dire che chiude una prima fase che penso si può collocare tra la fine degli anni 70 e fino agli anni 90.
L’ingresso dei PC negli anni 80 in massive quantities
has greatly changed things by putting the power of the PC available to individual as well as small businesses.
The arrival of the PC was a moment of panic for many corporate ladder because he risked incumbent monopolies and extended powers.
The PC input with an affordable cost has enabled many users to access and make a personal culture and often cross the border and become professionals.
The rest is history today.
Now it's clear that things have taken place without order senza supporto delle istituzioni e per tempi lunghi senza scuole pubbliche che potessero formare.
Gli Italiani non sono mai stati ( le masse ) congeniali con gli argomenti tecnico scientifici matematica e logica erano per i più un male inevitabile, l’inglese, indispensabile per gli approfondimenti, una noiosa pastoia.
Questo era il mondo del gestionale.
Il mondo dell’informatica scientifica ha un momento forte con l’arrivo delle stazioni grafiche specializzate, costosissime,sofisticate.
In questo mondo spesso erano i fornitori del prodotto  a formare gli addetti e , anche nel caso del software ed erano quasi esclusivamente aziende straniere che  imponevano costi inimmaginabili per compensare i loro esperti e i loro trainer.
Anche qui la formazione non era organica e razionale.
Abbiamo mai avuto in Italia un Bill Gates ? abbiamo avuto fornitori di CAD ? di fogli elettronici di word processor ?
Abbiamo avuto un inizio di queste cose ma poi queste piccole iniziative sono morte di inedia o sono state eliminate perche vendere un computer era più facile e remunerava molto di più.
We have never built? We had a garage where someone with Italian hot soldering iron ever tried to grapple with the hardware? There's never been anything like all'Hewlett Packard but there have been attempts. Olivetti erase history because it is a story about a state contractor with its aberrations.
course at the end of the story is zero, no one has produced anything comparable to what I said above. Italians many serious electronics enthusiasts and fans do not seem to be able to convert to digital in time, why?
If we look at the history of computing as a whole we see that we always been slaves of foreign technology and the reasons are blindness, inability to innovate institutions and large corporations, the anti-technological phobia, especially in the all-Italian who has been afraid of losing large and small powers, the petty politics of the financial system
But the story does not end here:
For decades someone breaks into one of the companies who have to make jobs information and who must often make snap it down three or four tiers of intermediaries. I forced the notebook and without any right of VAT and any form of assistance have worked for dozens of years, producing everything what in Italy using the ITC by the banks to telephony, media, industry virtually anywhere.
and everything has always been hindered by a third party making monopoly, becoming the Mafia just as happens with the illegal hiring of immigrants with the necessary strong differences in compensation.
everyone knows it, nobody talks about it.
Where are the bodies responsible for monitoring? what is to blame for this blindness of a system that has created a mafia behavior?

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