Khrushchev's 1959 Visit To IBM

harrymcc (1641347) writes In September of 1959, Nikita Khrushchev, the premier of the Soviet Union, spent 12 days touring the U.S. One of his stops was IBM's facilities in San Jose, which helped to create the area later known as Silicon Valley. The premier got to see the first computer which came with a hard disk, which IBM programmed to answer history questions. But what he was most impressed by was IBM's modern cafeteria. Over at Fast Company, I've chronicled this fascinating and little-known moment in tech history, which will be covered in an upcoming PBS program on Khrushchev's U.S. trip.

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Slashdot is lacking

[houghi]

I know that the news here is often not the very latest, but 55 years too late is ridiculous.
Next: (in 10 years) we will hear about a landing on the moon.

Re:Slashdot is lacking

[Anonymous Coward]

First post!