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and Tomorrow the World - Inside IBM
Edité par
Millington, 1975
ISBN 10 : 0860000435
ISBN 13 : 9780860000433
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Hardback. Etat : Fine. If you?ve ever looked at IBM and thought, ?Yes, but what was it like when it still felt like the future had a dress code??, then ?and Tomorrow the World ? Inside IBM (1975) by Rex Malik is your time machine. Published by Millington (ISBN: 0860000435), this is a peek behind the curtain at Big Blue in the era when computers were serious, rooms were large, and the word ?startup? mostly meant somebody had misread the instructions. This isn?t IBM as a logo on a cloud service. This is IBM as an institution ? the corporate cathedral of processing power, where suits were pressed, procedures were worshipped, and the machinery hummed with the quiet confidence of a company that believed it was building tomorrow by the ton. Malik takes you inside the culture, the mindset, the scale ? the sense that IBM wasn?t merely selling products so much as selling the very idea of organised, modern civilisation. If paperwork had a patron saint, it probably wore an IBM badge. Reading it now is deliciously double-edged. On one hand, it?s an era of clean optimism: technology as progress, systems as solutions, the future arriving on schedule. On the other, it?s the kind of corporate atmosphere that makes you realise why ?office satire? became a genre. You can practically hear the clack of typewriters in the outer rings and the low, reverent hush around the mainframes. And the title itself ? ?and Tomorrow the World ? is wonderfully 1970s confident. Not ?and tomorrow, hopefully, a modest improvement in quarterly performance,? but the world . The ambition is unapologetic. It?s a book from a time when technology companies still sounded like they were marching towards utopia, rather than A/B testing your attention span. Condition-wise, this one is Fine , and it genuinely matters here. Because books about corporate empires tend to be handled, referenced, loaned, underlined, and generally ?used? in the way that sounds respectable but looks dreadful. Not this copy. This is very well preserved , kept in an archival plastic sleeve like it?s an artefact from the early civilisation of computing ? which, in a way, it is. Crisp, protected, and ready to be admired either as a historical document or as a slightly eerie glimpse into the mindset that shaped modern tech. Perfect for: computing history nerds who like their nostalgia with a side of organisational psychology IBM collectors and ?Big Blue? devotees anyone fascinated by corporate culture at industrial scale readers who enjoy the peculiar thrill of seeing yesterday?s future described with complete sincerity Available now from Crappy Old Books , where the past is neatly sleeved, the paper is still proud, and tomorrow remains?quietly?under revision. N° de réf. du vendeur 5858
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AndTomorrow . the World?: Inside IBM
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Millington, 1975
ISBN 10 : 0860000435
ISBN 13 : 9780860000433
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Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Very good blue cloth boards in a very good unclipped dust jacket in a protective cover. Some pencil notations in the first 5 chapters. Jacket has edge-wear around the spine. The inner workings of IBM. N° de réf. du vendeur 002933
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And Tomorrow the World?: Inside I. B. M.
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Ltd, 1975
ISBN 10 : 0860000435
ISBN 13 : 9780860000433
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Hardcover. Etat : Fair. No Jacket. Condition : Fair/ study copy in unevenly sunned and marked covers. Former university library copy with associated markings. Hard cover, no jacket. 496pp. No annotations or highlighting. Corners bumped. Photo on request. N° de réf. du vendeur 943561
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And Tomorrow.The World ? Inside IBM
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Millington Ltd, London, 1975
ISBN 10 : 0860000435
ISBN 13 : 9780860000433
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Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. 1st Edition. Dustwrapper, pp.xxii, 496. The inner workings over 20 years of the IBM corporation. Early concerns regarding unlimited technological growth - sounds familiar. Dustwrapper rather edgeworn and rubbed, with some small splits and two longish closed splits to front cover. Minor bump to cover lower edge. Contents clean, tight. VG in fair dustwrapper. N° de réf. du vendeur 011360
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