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Kulturrní Tvorba made its observations after a glimpse at Incomex '66 (for International Computer Exhibition '66), a month-long display of the wares of 15 Western computer makers in Prague's Park of Culture. To study the largest array of computers ever assembled in the East, politicians and problem solvers flocked from all over the bloc...
...Western companies went all out to sell them. The British, who had conceived Incomex '66, opened case after case of Scotch for their visitors, who thirsted not only for knowledge. From New York, London, Vienna and Stuttgart, IBM rushed in programmers to solve particular problems. Sperry Rand, displaying eight plaques representing earlier sales to Communist customers, advertised itself proudly as "The Pioneer of Automation in Socialist States...
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