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IBM is Founded
IBM is found and created in New York City. At its begining it was a merger of three manufacturing companies. It was first called C-T-R. -
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First GM for IBM comes into place
Thoams J. watson becomes the GM of IBM. It is said that he implemented the majority of IBM's "positive buisness aspects' during his tenure with the company. -
IBM is named
C-T-R is renamed to International Business Machines Corporation or "IBM" -
IBM invents Vacuum Multiplier
An inventions that used vacuum tubes to perform calculations electronically. -
IBM creates first computer the mark 1
IBM joins with Harvard, their first attempt at building a computer. -
IBM creates Watson LAbratory
IBM finds their first labratory in Columbia, New York -
IBM creates a hard disk storage
IBM creates the worlds first know Hard Drive for storage on Computers -
IBM sells 10,000 computers
IBM becomes the first computer company to ever achieve this feat, selling 10,000 computers of one kind. -
IBM creates DRAM memory chip
IBM creates a memory chip that was one of the key pieces of modern computer development -
IBM uses virtual memory
The 1970 IBM System 370, was the first computer to use virtual memory for the first time -
IBM invented first speech recognition computer
IBM created the first computer that is able to ask and answer question electroniblly. -
IBM wins Nobel prize
IBM wins the 1986 nobel prize for their work in scanning tunneling microscopy. -
IBM wins 1987 nobel prize
IBM wins the 1987 nobel prize for their breakthrough discovery in superconductivity in a new class of materials. -
IBM revenue
IBM hits 33 billion in revenue throughout the companies life. -
IBM is sold to levano
Lenovo purchases IBM's personal computing division, completing IBM's transition into a services company and away from selling directly to consumers. -
IBM birthday
IBM turns 100 and celebrates by passing microsoft in surface value for the first time in 15 years.