My favorite project name was for a project I was lead engineer on for a major computer
time-sharing company (using IBM mainframes) in 1980-1983. It was a project aimed for the
coal mining industry, later to be expanded to the hard rock mining industry. It would
take drill hole core data and model what the coal seam or ore body would look like. Data
entry would be done onsite, with the serious number crunching done on the company's
IBM mainframes thus generating the time-share revenue for the company.
We called the project: Distributed Reserve and Evaluation Mapping System.
Yep, DREAMS !
The project evaporated when the company finally did some strategic planning and decided it
didn't really want to be in the mining industry (and a lot of other industries.) The
other mining engineer on the project was a pipe smoker. But we didn't think calling
the 1 million USD project PIPE-DREAMS would get by upper-level management!
Ah, those were the days.....
Stephen.
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