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Article: IBM RESULTS SYSTEM SETS RECORD AT LAKE LANIER NATIONAL ROWING CHAMPIONSHIPS.

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June 22, 1995
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GAINESVILLE, Ga.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 22, 1995--When 1,000 athletes compete in over 40 US Rowing National Championships races this week, the Results System that will time 1996 Olympic Games sports will be put through its paces in a tower overlooking the Lake Lanier rowing course.

A team of professionals from The Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games (ACOG) and Integrated Systems Solutions Corporation, an IBM subsidiary, developed the results application that assembles, calculates and distributes sports results to officials and scoreboards. Final tallies are collected at the venue on an IBM personal computer Local Area Network (LAN) server using OS/2(a) and DB2(a) ...

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