IBM

I guess with the '80s, my entry point is 1987, when, age 25, I became an IBM research fellow for the next six years at their scientific centre in Winchester in the South of England.

William Latham, 1980s Computer Art: Mark Wilson, David Em, Dan Sandin

The name of the piece is associated with a linear congruential generator, which is basically like RANDU. It's a really bad algorithm that was used in the '60s and '70s by IBM, which constantly failed at producing randomness.

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Electric Op: Cory Arcangel, JODI, LoVid, Lozano-Hemmer