People really need to be more careful about unearthing things like this. The Computer Science department at my university is talking about writing their own songbook. I've never been able to get them interested in computer history, but that songbook has people all abuzz! -- Ian

On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 7:43 PM, Len Shustek <len@shustek.com> wrote:

At 03:32 AM 8/31/2014, Brian Randell wrote:

Arstechnica has an article about, and a full copy of an 1937 edition of the IBM Song Book.

ttp://arstechnica.com/business/2014/08/tripping-through-ibms-astonishingly-insane-1937-corporate-songbook/

You can hear a few of the songs at
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/music/music_clips.html
and see a 4-minute general-interest movie inspired by them, about the IBM culture generally, at
http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/punched-cards/2/12/2211

-- Len Shustek

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Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS
Ph.D. Candidate
The Information School
University of Washington

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