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    <p>Congratulations Jim--from Germany too! I look forward, especially
      because I am  just dealing with the story of the first usage of
      IBM computers in German astronomy and other sciences, and have
      already ordered the book for our library.</p>
    <p>Ulf</p>
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PD Dr. Ulf Hashagen
Leitung / Head
Forschungsinstitut für Technik- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte / The Research Institute for the History of Science and Technology
Deutsches Museum
Museumsinsel 1
80538 München / Munich
Germany
Tel. +49/(0)89/2179-453
Fax  +49/(0)89/2179-239
Email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:u.hashagen@deutsches-museum.de">u.hashagen@deutsches-museum.de</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.deutsches-museum.de/forschung/wissenschaftl-mitarbeiter/pd-dr-ulf-hashagen/">http://www.deutsches-museum.de/forschung/wissenschaftl-mitarbeiter/pd-dr-ulf-hashagen/</a></pre>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 15.01.2019 um 16:30 schrieb JoAnne
      Yates:<br>
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            Jim! I look forward to it. And thanks for the cool ad,
            Pierre!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                          style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Members
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                          on behalf of James Cortada <<a
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                          <b>Date: </b>Monday, January 14, 2019 at 8:00
                          AM<br>
                          <b>To: </b>sigcis <<a
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                          <b>Subject: </b>[SIGCIS-Members] IBM History<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">I am
                          delighted to inform you that my book IBM: The
                          Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon
                          will be published by MIT Press in early
                          March.  As many of you already know, this
                          history goes from the 1880s to the present and
                          represents 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
                          <a
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                            Mitpress.mit.edu</a>.  I want to publicly
                          thank the many dozens of you who have either
                          helped, encouraged, or cajoled me into writing
                          this large book.  Regards, Jim
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style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">James W.
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                                  Research Fellow<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Charles
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