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Franck's book a look into IBM's Endicott legacy
Before Silicon Valley became the epicenter of the computing universe, Endicott could claim to be one of the world’s technology hubs.
Looking at North Street today, and the ghost-like appearance of the Glendale Technology Park, it is often difficult to remember the ground-breaking research and the innovations that came from within the walls of those buildings.
I remember the invitation from IBM to visit Glendale where Lucie Fjeldstad, who was then Glendale lab director, introduced an IBM-manufactured impact printer than could run at a rate of 60 lines per second. The device was targeted for the world’s largest banks with a need for a reliable high-speed unit that could print at what was then considered near supersonic speed.
Forty years ago, some of the smartest brains in the technology world toiled at the Endicott complex, producing the computers that were the backbone of American industry.
Hard to believe now because reminders of that era are too few.
Every once in a while, however, the memory is jogged.
That happened when Don Franck recently handed me a copy of his self-published work “Deep Blue, Industrial Espionage, IBM and the CIA.”
Franck, who worked 31 years at IBM-Endicott before taking one of the first early re
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Keeping the U.S. Computer Industry Competitive: Defining the Agenda (1990)
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Overview Although the competitiveness of key industries most notably, semiconduc- tor manufacturing has seriously declined, the computer sector as a whole retains much vitality. U.S. firms dominate the fastest growing, and perhaps most lucrative, markets for computer-related goods and services. For example, more than 60 percent of the world software market, totaling about $65 billion in 1989 and growing at an annual rate of about 25 percent, is controlled by U.S.- based suppliers.! 2 Similarly, domestic enterprises and their overseas sub- sidiaries reap the majority of the global revenues earned for designing and inte- grating computer systems, a market whose annual value colloquium participants estimated to be between $25 billion and $40 billion. Finally, U.S. computer manufacturers are by far the world's largest producers of computing and periph- eral equipme