Mannerisms

 
'In their fact-finding mission they will visit England, France, Germany and Czechoslovakia,' continues the report, 'and the picture they will piece together will be embodied in a report intended to provide broad guide lines to the Japanese computer industry'.

'High on the list of priorities to be considered will be the possibilities of forming links with European firms.'

'Commented Dr Katsuhiko Noda, director of the Electronic Computer Division of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry: "It is all of us against IBM".'

It has to be said, nearly 40 years later, with anti-trust rumblings surfacing again in the US about IBM's dominance of the mainframe market that, in the contest of IBM vs The Rest of the World, IBM won.