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A RELEVANT LOOK INTO THE COLD WAR YEARS A look into little known 'behind-the-scenes' history, and quiet desperation, of some of those years. An Analog Computer System made The B-52 a Weapon during the Cold War Years. This is a previously unpublished chapter in the history of IBM, once as large as some third-world countries. IBM has since divested itself of any such direct involvement in the 'defense and aerospace contract' business. Before it became referred to as 'Big Blue', IBM commercial branch offices were painted a sick looking green. Initially, IBM's original digital data processing and calculating machines were painted crinkle 'black'; later, battleship grey, starting in the late-40s. Office colors were changed to blue and grey in the early 50s. IBM 'Customer Engineers', who maintained these electro-mechanical, and later electronic, marvels of human genius and complexity, wore business suits, white shirts and ties, to blend into the office environment, even though replacing accounting machine clutch assemblies was like replacement of the transmission in your automobile. Tool bags were designed to look like brief cases. Six months of factory school training plus three months of work orientation were pre-requisite before a new Customer Engineer was given a Customer for responsibility or allowed to touch a machine with a screw driver in a Customer's Office. This training was paid for by private business, not socialist government and administration hand-out. So too were tution refunds, re-location expenses, and private medical and insurance benefits. This was private 'capitalism' and research and development through private 'capitalism' at its best. Those were the 'golden years', when a single income by a father could provide for and support all the needs of a family of five - years this world and all of mankind will never see again in the future that is being imposed on the human race by the New World Order. Advance to Messenger Advance to "Little Known History Of The Analog Computer System That Made The B-52 A Weapon During the Cold War Years" Advance to Natural Law Thesis Return to the Home Page |