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This paper explores the role of early IBM strategies such as installing “computing work horses” at various customer and own sites for shared use. It did this by making available a “super computer” at the Northern Europe University Computing Center, by making available programming languages and application programs to the computing community, and, not least, by conducting courses in state-of-the-art equipment and computing methods. The paper covers the time up to the advent of the IBM System 360 in 1964.
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Andersin, H.E. (2005). The Role of IBM in Starting up Computing in the Nordic Countries. In: Bubenko, J., Impagliazzo, J., Sølvberg, A. (eds) History of Nordic Computing. HiNC 2003. IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, vol 174. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-24168-X_4
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