The most striking thing to me about IBM memos from this era is just how literate executives were. These days most VPs struggle to write a single sentence worth reading.
I worked for a government entity and was involved in a lawsuit based on a very old, not-IBM mainframe contract that was solicited before I was born and amended like 30 times.
The memos and letters in those files were both amazing and depressing, as when you fast forwarded from the late 70s to circa 2010, the writing quality steadily declined.
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The memos and letters in those files were both amazing and depressing, as when you fast forwarded from the late 70s to circa 2010, the writing quality steadily declined.