Flashback to the late 1980s, when this pilot fish is a tech support manager for a regional bank, so he knows all the brand names that matter in his data center.

“I was friends with a couple, one of whom worked for Attachmate,” fish says. “I was well aware of that company and what it did — providing products for mainframe IBM 3270 terminal emulation on PCs. But that was something not easily explained to a non-techie.

“While attending a party at this couple’s house, I overheard another Attachmate employee’s conversation. Someone had asked him where he worked, and he said ‘Attachmate.’

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