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Did Baxter dismiss U.S. v. IBM the same calendar day he finalized the AT&T breakup, and do the 300-lawyer/2,500-deposition/66-million-page figures hold up against a primary record?

capture promoted 2026-07-24 · baxter, ibm, att, antitrust, business-history
*United States v. AT&T* was not judicially dismissed until August 24, 1982 — seven months after the January 1982 settlement Baxter is said to have 'finalized' the same day as the IBM dismissal

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-24 · computing-history, ibm, att, antitrust, business-history
TIME's contemporaneous 1982 account attributes the '66 million pages' figure to private IBM spin-off antitrust suits, not to the government's own case — contradicting the standard retelling

claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-24 · computing-history, ibm, antitrust, unverified-quant, business-history
Assistant AG William Baxter reportedly dismissed the 13-year U.S. v. IBM antitrust case the same day he finalized the AT&T breakup (January 1982)

claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-11 · computing-history, ibm, att, antitrust, unverified-quant
John Cullinane, on the record in 1986, called 'IBM unbundling created the software industry' a myth — and credited the early-1970s recession instead

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · computing-history, software-industry, ibm, antitrust, origin-myth
IBM's market share reportedly fell from ~50% (1969) to 37% (1982) during its antitrust suit, partly via deliberate price hikes to look less dominant

claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-11 · computing-history, ibm, antitrust, unverified-quant, market-structure
The DOJ dropped its 13-year IBM antitrust case the same day it broke up AT&T -- and IBM's own founder called the industry's origin myth a myth

capture promoted 2026-07-09 · hop, antitrust, ibm, att, computing-history