Title :
Appropriating American Technology in the 1960s: Cold War Politics and the GDR Computer Industry
Author_Institution :
Passau Univ., Passau, Germany
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;
Journal_Title :
Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MAHC.2010.6
