Tom Watson senior, founder of IBM, wasn’t initially keen on the notion of electronic computing – it was Tom Watson junior who pushed that – but the old boy knew how to sell it. He put the machine, called the Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator (SSEC), in the lobby of IBM’s HQ at 590 Madison Ave ...
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from Electronics Weekly http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/mannerisms/yarns/489375-2016-12/
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