Watson Jr. memo about CDC 6600 (1963)

rbanffy

Interesting to note the question had the answer all along. How would a modest effort outrun a vast organisation? I never imagined he’d be caught by that mistake.

bediger4000

I used CDC computers 1986-92. They sucked, and CDC employees could not comprehend that they sucked. They had convinced themselves that their alternate universe was real.

kristianp

So the CDC 6600 wasn't considered a RISC machine, but a precursor?

adonovan

The most striking thing to me about IBM memos from this era is just how literate executives were. These days most VPs struggle to write a single sentence worth reading.