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In response to "Maybe I am unfamiliar with some of their atrocities? -- nm" by Nightcrawler

uh, they provided the hardware and software to freaking manage the holocaust. -- nm

Posted by Beryllium (aka grayman) May 20 '10, 13:46

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I'm going to need some more recent examples of evil. -- nm - Roger More May 20, 13:48 2
- DeathStar hard drives. :) -- nm - Beryllium May 20, 13:49 1
  - heh - (which I haven't heard of) -- nm - Roger More May 20, 13:53
Wow. I am anti-history and had never really tried to imagine the tech used in those times. - Nightcrawler May 20, 13:47
the number tattoos? Those numbers were tracked by IBM. -- nm - Beryllium May 20, 13:47 4
- really? -- nm - Remlik May 20, 13:48 3
  - There's a book called "IBM and the Holocaust" about it (which I haven't read) -- nm - Roger More May 20, 13:51
  - I feel like a whole new (bad) world is unfolding in front of me. -- nm - Nightcrawler May 20, 13:49
  - That's my understanding of early computing history, yes. I guess calling it "software" is a bit misleading, but definitely hardware. -- nm - Beryllium May 20, 13:48

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