Yes they were. DeLamarter, Richard Thomas. 1986. Big Blue: IBM's Use and Abuse of Power (NY: Dodd, Mead).
On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 08:08:43PM -0800, Eugene Coyle wrote: > I think IBM was actually forced to stop the tie-in of the punch cards, > but my memory is hazy. There is a book about it, titled Big Blue or > something like that -- pretty good book, but it has been a long while > since I looked at it. > > Aircraft engines -- the big jet engines -- are frequently sold with a > tie to a maintenance contract, and also leased by the operating hour, > rather than sold. Lots of aircraft sales (and other big ticket items) > are sold and financed by the same entity. > > Gene Coyle > > Michael Perelman wrote: > > IBM was accused of requiring its customers of buying its punch > > cards -- which were the way of entering data into a computer a > > generation ago. Monsanto requires people who purchase its seeds > > to use its herbicide, Roundup, which we discussed last week. Why > > is that not a tie-in? Maybe because the company claims to "rent" > > its seeds. > > > > "Devine, James" wrote: > > > > > >> > >>all I know is that back in the early 1970s, I was talking to > >>the information technology folks at work (at the Chicago Fed) > >>and they told me that IBM had been accused of anti-trust > >>violation because they'd set up one of their peripheral > >>machines so that it would only work with IBM mainframes. I do > >>not know anything more than that. > > > > > > -- > > > > Michael Perelman > > Economics Department > > California State University > > Chico, CA 95929 > > > > Tel. 530-898-5321 > > E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
