• DocumentCode
    1521237
  • Title

    Information Technologies in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), 1949–1989

  • Author

    Cortada, James W.

  • Author_Institution
    IBM
  • Volume
    34
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    34
  • Lastpage
    48
  • Abstract
    The German Democratic Republic made a major commitment to the manufacture and use of computers, following common practices embraced by communist regimes during the Cold War. This article describes the political, economic, and technical results from the founding of the GDR to its demise in 1989.
  • Keywords
    government data processing; information technology; Cold War; German Democratic Republic; computer manufacture; computer use; information technology; Computers; Economics; Germany; Government; History; Russia; Soviety Union; D 1-2; D 4; GDR; German Democratic Republic; Soviet Union; ZRA 1; history of computing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1058-6180
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MAHC.2012.27
  • Filename
    6203524
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1521237