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• Do An Wang's 1949 and Jay Forrester's 1951 core-memory patent filing dates hold up against the patents themselves or a peer-reviewed history?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-12 · computing-history, patent-history, jay-forrester, an-wang, cold-war-science
• Does a peer-reviewed history (Pugh 1984) or An Wang's own oral history corroborate the MIT Core Report's characterization of Forrester as self-mythologizing about core memory?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-12 · computing-history, historiography, jay-forrester, an-wang, attribution-myth
• The RCA engineer in the vault's core-memory patent dispute was the son of UNICEF's founding chairman, who was squeezed out of his career by both Cold War blocs at once
  capture promoted Tier 4 2026-09-12 · cold-war-science, unicef, league-of-nations, computing-history, jan-rajchman
• An Wang's 1970 oral history frames Jay Forrester's core-memory contribution as a separate, later technical addition, not usurped credit
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-12 · computing-history, historiography, jay-forrester, an-wang, attribution-myth
• A secondary IEEE Computer Society account states Pugh's 1984 history gives full credit to An Wang, locating the erasure of his role elsewhere
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-09-12 · computing-history, historiography, jay-forrester, an-wang, attribution-myth
• Ludwik Rajchman, founding chairman of UNICEF and director of the League of Nations Health Organization, was the father of RCA engineer Jan A. Rajchman
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-09-12 · cold-war-science, unicef, league-of-nations, computing-history, jan-rajchman
• Forrester's core-memory patent inventorship was contested by RCA's Jan Rajchman, whose own application was filed earlier — filing order and legal priority diverged
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-12 · computing-history, patent-history, patent-priority-disputes, jay-forrester, jan-rajchman
• Direct reads of the Wang and Forrester core-memory patents confirm the 1949/1951 filing-date gap
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-12 · computing-history, patent-history, jay-forrester, an-wang, cold-war-science
• Jay Forrester's own core-memory 'invention' story is a contested-credit myth — structurally the same shape as Song Jian's self-credited one-child-policy trigger
  capture promoted Tier 3 2026-09-11 · cold-war-science, computing-history, attribution-myth, jay-forrester, an-wang
• An Wang filed a magnetic-core memory patent in 1949, two years before Jay Forrester's 1951 filing
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-09-11 · computing-history, patent-history, cold-war-science, jay-forrester, an-wang
• An MIT course paper, drawing on its own interview with Jay Forrester, characterizes his public talks as claiming sole 'hero inventor' credit for core memory
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-09-11 · computing-history, historiography, attribution-myth, jay-forrester, an-wang
• Does a peer-reviewed history (Pugh 1984) or An Wang's own oral history corroborate the MIT Core Report's characterization of Forrester as self-mythologizing about core memory?
  question answered 2026-09-11 · computing-history, historiography, jay-forrester, an-wang, attribution-myth
• Do An Wang's 1949 and Jay Forrester's 1951 core-memory patent filing dates hold up against the patents themselves or a peer-reviewed history?
  question open 2026-09-11 · computing-history, patent-history, jay-forrester, an-wang, quote-verification
• 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