The Rise and Fall of Swedish Computing Innovation

In the late 1950s, Sweden briefly had the world’s fastest computer. And then in the 1960s, they produced computers good enough to beat even the vaunted IBM. An amazing start. Sweden might have been the computing leader of Europe. But unfortunately, that did not last. In this video we look at the birth and glory of Swedish-made computers with the story of Datasaab. I promise to only make one IKEA joke.

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