What is IBM

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It is a big company who was originally started to improve efficiency in the Office of every Business.

For a complete overview of IBM you would be much better looking at their Web Site and Goggle IBM.

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The company was founded in America in 1911 by Herman Hollerith, as the Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation, and their big product was punch cards and the machines to sort them. (Remember Hollerith fields in your Fortran programming class?) Around 1924 they changed their name to International Business Machines, and a visionary guy named Thomas Watson became president. In the 1950s, he passed control onto his son, Thomas Watson Jr., who started building computers under contract for the Air Force. It goes on from there.