It’s 1969 on this season’s Mad Men, and a glass-enclosed climate-controlled room is being built to house Sterling Cooper’s first computer — a soon-to-be-iconic IBM System/360 – in the space where the copywriters used to meet.
That Mad Men Computer, Explained by HBR in 1969
An IBM engineer offered cautions that are still true today.
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