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>what low-profile industry giants like Cisco and Oracle have been doing for a whole generation. It's more than a generation; IBM literally provided computers t

• yu3zhou4 1y ago
  Can you share more about it?
  • morsch 1y ago
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehomag#Holocaust https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehomag#Holocaust
• neumann 1y ago
  [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust This was an excellently researched book - the 2012 edition has a lot of additional documentation that really highlighted the level of support IBM threw behind the railway logistics planning.
• kps 1y ago
  > IBM literally provided computers that ran the holocaust. IBM literally provided punch card record keeping equipment. IBM literally didn't provide computers. Computers literally didn't exist.
  • tough 1y ago
    Punch cards where the literal computers at the time...
    • kps 1y ago
      The literal computers at the time were people. Computer: 1. One who computes; a calculator, reckoner; spec. a person employed to make calculations in an observatory, in surveying, etc. [OED, 1923] Punch cards held tables of records, and the unit record equipment were nowhere close to the modern meaning of ‘computer’. (The human computers were probably Turing-complete, though.)
      • tough 1y ago
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• tough 1y ago
  More than just computers too, look into VW or Hugo Boss