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In 1968, the British government arranged a shotgun marriage between three computer manufacturers to create International Computers Limited, or ICL.
The government envisioned ICL as the United Kingdom’s answer to IBM - a national champion in computers. But the company could not compete against American and East Asian competition and eventually sold to Fujitsu.
The United Kingdom pioneered computing technology. So why did ICL fail?
In this video, we are going to trace the history of the British computing giant from its punched-card days to its final demise in 2000. Sit back and relax. This is going to be a long one.
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