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A spoof on early computer users and the consultants who advised them. It is the summer of 66, and systems engineer Flambard OHiggins is pressured into quitting the US by his widowed mother who wants him in Canada, safe from the Vietnam draft. But Canada is not the sleepy backwater, nor is systems work there as easygoing he has been led to believe. And never mind the arctic blizzards, he finds himself as much a frequent flyer as he ever was back home. To top it all, President Johnsons call to arms gnaws so much on his conscience that were it not for the overwhelming allure of a fellow consultant of the opposing sex he would be on the first flight back to Detroit. And that consultant is Leslie Ingram, a product of the elite WASP enclave of Westmount, Quebec who championed the feminist cause until disillusioned by the human frailties of its leader at Berkeley. Adrift, she discovers management consulting and management consulting discovers her. She forges ahead, a r! ising star in the profession, until assailed by that mysterious force, that same sweet and cunning hand that has bewitched Flambard. The story gathers pace as these two protagonists of the madcap world of the 60s resolve their conflicts.
From the Publisher
Robin Maxwell was well into his career in data processing when in the early 1950s the first computers arrived on the scene. At first only an adjunct to the high-speed sorters, collators, and tabulators of the time, they began taking on a life of their own, and within a few short years catapulted the world into the computer age as we now know it. Though the technological advances of each succeeding computer generation was astonishing even to those in the industry, Maxwell has chosen as the setting for this book the turbulent 60s, a time of revolution on the computer front when core memory, the be all and end all of electronic innovation, was being ousted by the even more ingenious integrated circuit chip; and revolt, too, on the social front, the youth of America in ferment over Vietnam.
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