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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Pierre Mounier-Kuhn<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 15, 2019 5:49 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> James Cortada <jcortada@umn.edu>; members <members@sigcis.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [SIGCIS-Members] IBM History<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Congratulations, Jim, for this mighty work ! We are eager to read it.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">I happen to participate today in a meeting about the history of computing in Nancy. This local saga started with a visit of Norbert Wiener in 1947 and the arrival of an IBM 604 a few years later. I presented an
early ad for this machine (attached), stressing that it simply said "Electronic Calculator" for an obvious reason: There was no other on the market.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Pierre Mounier-Kuhn</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">De:
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">"Ian S. King" <<a href="mailto:isking@uw.edu">isking@uw.edu</a>><br>
<b>À: </b>"Barbara B Walker" <<a href="mailto:bbwalker@unr.edu">bbwalker@unr.edu</a>><br>
<b>Cc: </b>"members" <<a href="mailto:members@sigcis.org">members@sigcis.org</a>><br>
<b>Envoyé: </b>Mardi 15 Janvier 2019 00:34:05<br>
<b>Objet: </b>Re: [SIGCIS-Members] IBM History<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">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 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 2:08 PM Barbara B Walker <<a href="mailto:bbwalker@unr.edu" target="_blank">bbwalker@unr.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Members <<a href="mailto:members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org" target="_blank">members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org</a>> on behalf of James Cortada <<a href="mailto:jcortada@umn.edu" target="_blank">jcortada@umn.edu</a>><br>
<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<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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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
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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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