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Started by Herman Hollerith as the Tabulating Machine Company in 1896 and later Incorporated on June 16, 1911 in the state of New York a...

Started by Herman Hollerith as the Tabulating Machine Company in 1896 and later Incorporated on June 16, 1911 in the state of New York as the Computing - Tabulating - Recording Company (C-T-R), a consolidation of the Computing Scale Company, and The International Time Recording Company. In 1924 C-T-R adopted the name International Business Machines (IBM). Today, IBM is one of the most known and successful computer companies of the world.
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Support Notice: Today, IBM is the manufacturer and developer of various computers, hardware products, software products, and services. If your computer is IBM compatible it is likely a Lenovo or PC clone and not an IBM computer.
IBM Phone: (800) 426-4968
(800) 426-7378
LOTUS Phone: (800) 553-4270
IBM Sales: (800) 746-7426
IBM THINKPAD (Lenovo) Sales: (877) 884-4658
IBM antivirus Refer to Symantec
TDD/TTY: (800) IBM-3383
WebsiteS: http://www.ibm.com
http://www.lotus.com
http://www.chips.ibm.com
http://www.rs6000.ibm.com/
E-mail: askibm@vnet.ibm.com
Address: IBM Corporation
1133 Westchester Avenue
White Plains, New York 10604 IBM PC Company
11400 Burnet Rd.
Austin, TX 78758
IBM Parts Order Center
6300 Diagonal Highway
Boulder, CO 80301
IBM National Publications
4800 Falls of The Neause
Raleigh, NC 27609
Stock: IBM
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February 16, 2011 - Watson, an IBM Super computer beats the two best human Jeopardy players in a three day event with a score greater than the two human players combined.

2005 - Lenovo completes the acquisition of IBM's Personal Computing Division.

December 08, 2004 - IBM sells its computing division to Lenovo Group for $1.75 billion.

December 31, 2002 - Hitachi closes deal to purchase IBM's hard drive operation for $2.05 billion.

August 04, 2002 - IBM acquires Pricewaterhouse Coopers Consulting.

November 2001 - IBM starts the Eclipse project.

August 14, 2001 - IBM stops selling AMD-based PCs in North America.

January 1, 1999 - All IBM antivirus technical support problems are now addressed through Symantec.

November 10, 1999 - IBM today announced the industry's largest resolution, production-level LCD monitor panel available.

December 5, 1995 - IBM unveils Deep Blue, a parallel computing system that will later play the World Chess Champion Gary Kasparov.

1986 - The AT or 101 key keyboard is introduced by IBM.

1984 - IBM's AT computer is introduced.

1984 - IBM introduces its portable computer, the IBM Portable weighing in at 30 pounds.

August 12, 1981 - IBM joins the computer race by introducing IBM 5150 PC that used the 4.77-MHz Intel 8088 processor, 16 kB base memory, and PC-DOS (MS-DOS) for the OS.

1980 - IBM hires Microsoft to develop versions of BASIC, FORTRAN, COBOL, and Pascal for the PC being developed by IBM.

July 27, 1961 - The first IBM Selectric typewriter is released.

1956 - On September 13, 1956 the IBM 305 RAMAC is the first computer to be shipped with a hard drive that contained 50 24-inch platters and was capable of storing 5 million characters and weighed a ton.

July 25, 1911 - IBM is granted its first patent #998,631.

October 11, 1907 - IBM files for its first U.S. patent, #998,631.
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