Word: ibm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first computers had barely been put to work by college administrators a few years ago when students began complaining that they were being treated like so many IBM punch cards. Now prospective undergraduates are eagerly paying $15 to get just that sort of attention. By having information about themselves put on punch cards, they are getting valuable help in choosing the right college. In a fast-growing computerized program called SELECT, a computer digests the answers to a four-part 283-item questionnaire in a matter of seconds and compares the answers with its store of information about colleges...
...service, called Dynabank, is a form of computer time sharing that ties smaller banks into a large IBM storehouse of money-management data. By operating a special electric typewriter connected by telephone line to a computer center, a small-town banker can get a printout of information about conditions in distant bond and money markets, as well as economic forecasts for the nation or his region, and other data. If he is thinking of buying bonds, Dynabank will quote prices and yields of issues. If he wants to sell, the computer can tell him the market value...
...mellower moments, Norris seemed content to let Watson's IBM hold the overwhelming lead: "I want Control Data to be the Ford of the com puter industry." Though few people expect that IBM will be broken up, Control Data's suit may force the giant to back up a step or two. At the very least, it may prevent premature announcements of computers that are not quite ready to live up to expectations...
...Including Sperry Rand (Univac) with 5.8% of the $5.91 million computer market in 1967, Honeywell with 5.4%, General Electric with 4.1%, RCA with 3%, NCR with 2.4% and Burroughs with 1.8%. Control Data was in fifth place with 3.4%, while IBM held an overwhelming lead with...
...though. Alone among all the anti-Establishment revolutionary forces in the U.S., YIP doesn't believe in it. "Although I admire the revolutionary art of the Black Panthers," says Abbie, "I feel guns alone will never change this System. You don't use a gun on an IBM computer. You pull the plug...