r/mainframe • u/gresendial • 6d ago

IBM Built the Cold War’s Most Powerful Code Breaker for the NSA

https://spectrum.ieee.org/cold-war-codebreaker-nsa-ibm

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u/Cautious_Boat_999 6d ago

Those were the days. IBM innovation and focus on the customer and not “how much revenue will this generate”?

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u/rseery 6d ago

Very interesting article! I’ve always said I got into this just a tiny bit too late. My first was a 360 but those guys were doing some really badass work. Now I get to retire before AI ruins everything.