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Re:Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over cen... by stale2002 on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @07:56PM (#16972872)
I don't know, was it moral for IBM to work with the Nazis to build their concentration camp databases? (yes, this happened)

I mean, that made the shareholders money, right?

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Re:Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over cen... by nasredin on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @06:02AM (#16975466)
They sold them mechanical calculators (?) IIRC.

"Databases" is maybe not the right word?

Not a historian.

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Re:Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over cen... by computerfriend on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @07:54AM (#16976049)
It was their punchcard technology, which is more akin to databases than calculators.
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