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OLDFIELD, HOMER R. King of the seven dwarfs. General Electric's ambiguous challenge to the computer industry.
Los Alamitos, CA IEEE Computer Society Press 1996 0818673834 / 9780818673832 Hard Cover
252 pages, illustrations, cloth, dj, very good. The major study of the failure of GE, Phillips, Siemens and other consumer giants to achieve success as computing hardware/software manufacturers. The literature on GE's history, personalities and business methods is extensive. From Book News, Inc: Based on notes and recollections of General Electric workers and managers, not compared until decades later, reconstructs why the company failed to challenge IBM's domination of the computer market in the 1950s and 1960s, and finally sold its computer division in 1970. The Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota, holder of the H.R. Oldfield Collection of General Electric Corporation Records, 1948-1996, has biography of Homer Oldfield from which the following was excerpted: While a research associate at MIT, Oldfield was called to active duty with the U.S. Army in 1941 where he helped develop microwave antiaircraft devices. After he was relieved from active duty in 1945, Oldfield found employment with GE as a sales manager and later as operations manager in the Electronics Division, and in 1951 became director of the GE Advanced Electronics Center at Cornell University. In 1953 Oldfield set up and then managed the GE Microwave Laboratory at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, where he was at the time of the Bank of America ERMA proposal. In 1956 he became the general manager of GE’s Computer Department in Phoenix. In 1958 Oldfield left the GE Computer Department and conducted a three-month study program to explore the applications of new electronic technology projected over the next 5-10 years for GE at their Lynn River, Massachusetts location. At the end of the study, Oldfield left GE to work at Raytheon as General Manager of the Equipment Division. Oldfield continued to follow stories about the GE Computer Department well after the division’s sale to Honeywell. Oldfield reconnected with several Computer Department alumni in the 1990s and used their recollections to construct his history of the Department’s development and demise. His interest culminated in the publication, in 1996, of King of the Seven Dwarfs: General Electric's Ambiguous Challenge to the Computer Industry.
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HICKAM, HOMER H. Jr. Rocket boys. A memoir.
New York Delacorte Press, 1998 038533320X / 9780385333207 Soft Cover
364 pages, wraps, very good. 'From NASA engineer Homer Hickam Jr. comes a uniquely American memoir - a powerful, luminous story of growing up in a harsh West Virginia town, of a mother's love and a father's fears, of a young man who dreamed of launching rockets into outer space...and made that dream come true.'
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HOMER The Odyssey of Homer.
New York Heritage Press 1942 Hard Cover Good
In the English verse translation by Alexander Pope. Illustrated with the classical designs of John Flaxman. Xvi,[2], 357 pages, illustrations, cloth, backstrip sun-faded, text very good.
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LEA, HOMER (1876-1912) The valor of ignorance. Introduction by Clare Boothe.
New York Harper & Brothers, 1942 Hard Cover
344 pages, 11 maps & charts, cloth, reprint. Former owner's signature on front blank endpaper otherwise very good. Contains introductions by Lt. Gen. Adna R. Chaffee and Maj. Gen. J.P. Story. A remarkable work by a remarkable man. In this his most famous work he warns about Japanese plans to attack the United States and he predicted the landings in the Philippines and recognized the strategic importance of Hawaii and Alaska. Some thirty years later most of his predictions would come to pass. The new introduction by Miss Boothe contains a long biographical sketch of Lea. It took WWII and the threat of Japanese arms to bring out this new edition for propaganda purposes.
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