<div dir="ltr">I too am delighted by this publication. I've had numerous conversations with some of the former Sindelfingen team and they were quite proud of Germany's contributions to computing. I'm quite interested to read about your research regarding the early era of IBM's precursors. -- Ian </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 2:08 PM Barbara B Walker <<a href="mailto:bbwalker@unr.edu">bbwalker@unr.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Warmest congratulations, Jim!!! I am really looking forward to reading this, have been waiting with great interest for its arrival.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best, Barbara<u></u><u></u></p>
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<b>Date: </b>Monday, January 14, 2019 at 8:00 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>sigcis <<a href="mailto:members@sigcis.org" target="_blank">members@sigcis.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[SIGCIS-Members] IBM History<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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decades of research on the managerial, technological, economic, and business issues you and I study. MIT Press is offering a 30% discount on orders received before March 10th. To take advantage of that use Code IBM30 and order from
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