what does "actually manufactured the wall clock."mean? does it indicate IBM? The room was singularly plain. Its gray tile walls were as impersonal as IBM, which had actually manufactured the wall clock. Entering from the passageway in which Mrs. Kennedy was just now sitting down—Sergeant Dugger had found her a folding chair—one encountered a solid door which swung to the right. Within, the initial impression was of utility and durability. This was a chamber of suffering, but it had been designed for doctors, not patients.