Apropos the mess in which the US Commerce Department got itself over refusing a licence to IBM to ship a 4381 to 51%-Soviet-owned Transnaut-ic of Hamburg while nodding through an application from National Advanced Systems to ship a comparable Hitachi machine to the same customer (CI No 778), despite remarks attributed to Commerce Department officials […]
Apropos the mess in which the US Commerce Department got itself over refusing a licence to IBM to ship a 4381 to 51%-Soviet-owned Transnaut-ic of Hamburg while nodding through an application from National Advanced Systems to ship a comparable Hitachi machine to the same customer (CI No 778), despite remarks attributed to Commerce Department officials to the contrary, NAS tells us it did notify the Department of Transnautic’s ownership.