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Ancient IBM wisdom (from 1979) that the bosses just straight up promptly forgot (media.piefed.social)

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Apparently a page from an internal IBM training manual. Some further attempts at source it

Ancient IBM wisdom (from 1979) that the bosses just straight up promptly forgot

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[–] GrabtharsHammer@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I have bad news about IBM's past as regards fascists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

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[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 year ago

At the time the computers were kinda newfangled and they tolerated some hippies over there in research.

The business part, well, yeah.

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