Word: ibm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John Diebold, the noted computer consultant, who was asked by IBM to be a witness, gave the TIME conference "a peasant's view of what it is like to have the Justice Department's B-52s drop napalm on me." First, at Government request, he turned over 300,000 pages of documents from his company, the Diebold Group, relating to the computer industry. Said Diebold: "That is a minor ripple in the ocean of paper that has been delivered by IBM, but I wasn't even a party to the case!" Then he was tied up full...
Staal, who says Diebold dropped out rather than produce more evidence damaging to IBM's case, responds that the other companies do not make general purpose computers; they manufacture smaller or specialized computers or parts...
...change in technology and the computer market is a major obstacle to the Government's case. None of the IBM computer systems that were on the market when the Government filed suit are still being made by the company. The trustbusters claim that the same pattern of IBM monopoly persists, but they must constantly seek new facts to prove...
...Government has never spelled out just how it wants to break up IBM to foster competition. Any "relief that the court eventually may grant must be based on up-to-date information. So last January-ironically on the tenth anniversary of the case-the Government made yet another discovery request for current information and IBM's plans for the future. IBM is resisting; it argues that this third round of discovery would bare its trade secrets, and further delay the trial...
...decided that it could save fuel through what was literally an open-door policy. So one cold Friday evening, the doors throughout the firm's three story, 102,000-sq.-ft. building were left open so that the heat given off by its data processing equipment-three large IBM 3033 computers, two printers and 160 disc and tape units-could flow to every floor. During that weekend, although the boilers were cut off, office temperatures dropped no more than three degrees...