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  • Founding of Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR)

    Founding of Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR)
    A merger of three 19th-century companies—the Tabulating Machine Company, the International Time Recording Company and the Computing Scale Company of America—creates the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) on June 16, 1911. CTR is the precursor to IBM.

  • Name Change to International Buisness Machines Corporation (IBM)

    Name Change to International Buisness Machines Corporation (IBM)
    in 1924, the company’s name changes to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).

  • Social Security Act of 1935

    Social Security Act of 1935
    IBM is able to play a pivotal role in enabling the U.S. government’s Social Security Act of 1935, “the biggest accounting operation of all time.”

  • Harvard Mark I

    Harvard Mark I
    IBM, constructed a large automatic digital sequence-controlled computer called the Harvard Mark I. This computer could handle all four arithmetic operations, and had special built-in programs for logarithms and trigonometric functions.

  • Thomas J. Watson Jr. Becomes President of IBM

    Thomas J. Watson Jr. Becomes President of IBM
    The ascension of Thomas J. Watson Jr. to IBM’s presidency in 1952 marks the beginning of the company’s transition to a modern corporation. During the first decade of his tenure, Watson Jr.—later labeled by Fortune as the “most successful capitalist who ever lived”—begins to transform IBM from a leading industry player into a business behemoth that spans the globe. He refocuses IBM toward the development and commercialization of electronic computer technologies, creates and institutionalizes prof

  • System/360™

    System/360™
    IBM develops the revolutionary System/360™ family of mainframe computers. Sparked in part by the triumph of the System/360, IBM experiences a nearly fivefold increase in revenues and earnings over the course of the decade.

  • First IBM PC

    First IBM PC
    in the 1980s, the company creates standards that legitimize the PC, turning it from a hobbyist device into an indispensable tool of modern life—in homes, businesses and schools around the world.

  • "E-Buisness"

    "E-Buisness"
    The company fundamentally reshapes its culture to refocus on clients and to be more agile, responsive and collaborative. This transformation coincides with the advent of the Internet, and IBM is a pioneer in helping clients capitalize on the new possibilities of global networked computing and business—what it dubs “e-business.”