Khrushchev's 1959 Visit To IBM

Posted by timothy on Friday October 31, 2014 @06:33PM from the economic-coordination dept.

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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wait by atomicthumbs · 2014-10-31 19:10 · Score: 3, Insightful

wouldn't a "thawing" of the cold war be a *bad* thing

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1. Re:wait by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-01 01:14 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  Sure... And every other Russian President has been a success story for Socialism? No. The Soviets hurt, killed, starved, controlled, were awful to the people. Maybe you want to give communism another go, eh? dipshit...
2. Re:wait by K.+S.+Kyosuke · 2014-11-01 01:49 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  Democracy seems to fail more often if you don't have an established cultural tradition of it. Since Russians first lived under samoderzhavye and then under Bolshevism, I think it's rather optimistic to expect them to become another US in just a few years.
  
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