I'm a little surprised by GE's CEO at the time having such a low tolerance for experimental lines of business. The GE-225 computer only came into existence beca

I'm a little surprised by GE's CEO at the time having such a low tolerance for experimental lines of business. The GE-225 computer only came into existence because the team building it hid it from him, and despite being a runaway success by early '60s computing standards, he not only fired its creator, he stayed adamant about getting out of the business and sold it all off to Honeywell -- including Multics, the mainframe OS that greatly influenced Unix's design. Granted, it's not like GE faded into obscurity based on this decision, but it seems to reflect a different corporate culture from even what we'd consider "conservative" today.