Big Blue gets beaten: the technological and political controversy of the first large Swedish computerization project in a rhetoric of technology perspective
Mats Johansson · IEEE Annals of the History of Computing · 1999
This article analyzes the rhetoric used in the Datasaab-IBM controversy when the first computerized national register and taxation system was created in the early 1960s. The aim is to understand how Datasaab could establish a new technological frame and at the same time grow into what became Sweden's first big computer manufacturer.