• DocumentCode
    1404986
  • Title

    Appropriating American Technology in the 1960s: Cold War Politics and the GDR Computer Industry

  • Author

    Donig, Simon

  • Author_Institution
    Passau Univ., Passau, Germany
  • Volume
    32
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    2010
  • Firstpage
    32
  • Lastpage
    45
  • Abstract
    Paradoxically, at the height of the Cold War, the Eastern and Western Blocs became increasingly technologically entangled. From 1964 onward, the German Democratic Republic drew greatly from US companies as role models when building a national computer industry. Numerous challenges and conflicts arose from appropriating knowledge and artifacts while politically rejecting the society in which they originated.
  • Keywords
    DP industry; business data processing; government data processing; government policies; American technology; Cold War politics; GDR computer industry; German Democratic Republic; US companies; CDC; Cold War; GDR; IBM; Robotron Combine; Unified System; computer industry; history of computing; socialist artifact; technology policy; technology transfer;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1058-6180
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MAHC.2010.6
  • Filename
    5406488
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1404986