Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank Paul Lasewicz for his wealth of knowledge and guidance in researching IBM history; Mike Wing for providing a steady and thoughtful editorial hand; Teresa Yoo and Elizabeth Schaefer for their judgment and care in shepherding this project from start to finish; Jon Iwata and Keith Yamashita for guidance in shaping the themes; Pennie Rossini and Janet Byrne for scrupulous care in copyediting and fact-checking; and dozens of current and former IBMers for their contributions. Finally, we are grateful to Curt Schreiber and the VSA team for giving visual expression to our essays’ ideas.

Kevin Maney thanks Steve Wildstrom, Russ Mitchell and Emerson Pugh for their help researching and pulling together the ...

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