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Desk plaque

1970s
Gift of Jordan and Kathy Wouk
2016.67
Donor Jordon Wouk received this desk plaque around 1974 while working for Inforex, a Boston area tech firm. Desk plaques, like this example, were made in a variety of languages. Wouk was hired by the new firm as a computer programmer when he was not quite 21 years old. Inforex was founded by former employees of IBM.
Description"Think" desk plaque in written in Hebrew characters.
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