User talk:TomBorkowski

Attachmate sourcing and additional information
Hi Tom. I noticed that you added a particularly interesting fact to the article on Attachmate but didn't seem to provide a source for it. I looked around online a bit (We are real hard-asses about verifying claims that are in articles) and I can't seem to find anything supporting this. Have you got any documents (preferably accessible online) that support the claim? Also, if you've got more stuff about the company in general, I would love to see it and include it in the article. jp×g 10:22, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

October 2020
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions; however, it appears you may have written a Wikipedia article about yourself. Creating an autobiography is strongly discouraged – please see our guideline on writing autobiographies. If you create such an article, it may be deleted. If what you have done in life is genuinely notable and can be verified according to our policy for articles about living people, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later (see Wikipedians with articles). If you wish to add to or change an existing article about yourself, you are welcome to propose the changes by visiting the article's talk page. Please understand that this is an encyclopedia and not a personal web space or social networking site. If your article has already been deleted, please see: Why was the page I created deleted?, and if you feel the deletion was an error, please discuss this with the deleting administrator. Thank you. S0091 (talk) 23:03, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

Hello,

I have no idea how your communications system works. Do you know we have invented a wonderful thing called email. It really works great, and everyone knows how to use it.

You asked me to provide an autobiography to provide information about Tom Borkowski when a user who was reading the Wikipedia Article Attachmate clicks on Tom Borkowski. My entry is similar to Frank Pritt.

Attachmate was founded in 1982 by Frank W. Pritt and Tom Borkowski.[4] It focused initially on the IBM terminal emulation market, and became a major technology employer in the Seattle area.[5]

You have my permission to edit my Tom Borkowski entry anyway you want to meet your needs.

And whoever designed this communications system should be put to sleep. As a software engineering manager, I would have rearranged his cranial matter and he would have gotten it right.

Tell me what you want me to do and I will do it.

Thank You,

Tom Borkowski tomborkowski@outlook.com


 * Pinging S0091 so they see your message Jimfbleak - talk to me?  11:39, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi Tom, I do not see where anyone asked you write an autobiography so that appears to have been a misunderstanding. You do not need a separate article about you to be included as a founder of Attachmate. What is required and what was asked of you is to provide a published reliable source that substantiates your claim.  The current cited source states Frank Pitt was the founder. There is no mention of you or Julia, thus Julia was rightfully removed. Now the question is including you. S0091 (talk) 15:56, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Oh and you may find this guide on using Talk pages helpful. Generally speaking, for transparency and history, communication is kept on-wiki.  I agree with you the current system could use improvement to put it mildly but for now, it is what it is. S0091 (talk) 16:11, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

From: Tom Borkowski

You are right. I did assume you wanted me to write a bio. When the below Wikipedia Attachmate page is displayed, and I move my mouse cursor over Frank Pritt, a window pops up with his bio. When I move it over Tom Borkowski a blank window came up saying Tom Borkowski page was empty. So, I assumed you wanted me to fill it in.

History and products Attachmate Corporation Attachmate was founded in 1982 by Frank W. Pritt and Tom Borkowski.[4] It focused initially on the IBM terminal emulation market, and became a major technology employer in the Seattle area.[5]

I don't care about publishing my bio. Everyone I know already knows my bio.

Important to me was that I be restored on Wikipedia as the co-founder of Attachmate, and I am grateful to you that you did it. For several years, I was listed on Wikipedia as the co-founder. Then Frank Pritt had me expunged. I let it go because Julia Pritt was dying of cancer, and then Frank Pritt died of cancer, and their kids liked their mother being recognized.

But now they are dead, their kids have a billion dollars, and I thank you for restoring me as the co-founder of Attachmate, because I am. The product I created and paid for with my money is superb. I designed a micro-coded microprocessor and a windows operating system that ran MS-DOS as a task on the PC in its own resizable, moveable window 6 years before the commercial release of MS Windows 1.0

My PC 3270 product allowed, for the first time, the IBM Mainframe to be used as a File Server. When the IBM executives saw Attachmate using their mainframes as a file server they went ballistic. They screamed that IBM engineers told them that was impossible. I took out a floppy disk and copied one of the IBM Executive's file from the show's mainframe and gave it to him. No one else could do file transfers and use the IBM Mainframe as a file server, including IBM, and that feature made Attachmate into the huge success with the brilliant management of Frank Pritt. But without Tom Borkowski, Cody Gibson, and Jon Carlson, there would not have been the revolutionary product the could use IBM Mainframes as File Servers.

So, do whatever you want. I will help you if you ask. You may take what I wrote and edit it to satisfy your needs. It's all true. Finally, putting my bio on Wikipedia is not something I desire in my old age. I was just trying to be helpful.

And finally, I would have designed a better communications system that Wikipedia has.

Here is the rule: When an engineer designs something that is too complex, he or she can't see the complexity because they have been working with it for months. But then, TomB steps in and rearranges the engineer's cranial matter, and he suddenly sees a way to make it simple.

Thank you,

Tom Borkowski tomborkowski@outlook.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:600:9A80:1610:D4FE:C90E:7B94:3D6A (talk) 16:57, 25 October 2020 (UTC)