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Haanstra from SDD and assign him to a committee called the "four horsemen" along with John Gibson, Clarence E. Frizzell, and Henry E. Cooley. The committee was to coordinate all IBM manufacturing and laboratory locations and "decide how to meet System/360 manufacturing commitments." In 1966 Bob Evans lobbied and had
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