*Its case was designed by no less a man than Norman Bel Geddes.
*You can tell that Grace Hopper was a real geek because she was lamenting that it cost too much to make a computer look good. Given that this was 1944 she may have had a point, but not much of one. What was the USA fighting Nazi Germany for, if not for IBM's future ability to make awesome consumer design, rather than genocidal punch-card tabulation?
