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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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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.
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C-T-R is renamed to International Business Machines Corporation or "IBM"
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An inventions that used vacuum tubes to perform calculations electronically.
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IBM joins with Harvard, their first attempt at building a computer.
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IBM finds their first labratory in Columbia, New York
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IBM creates the worlds first know Hard Drive for storage on Computers
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IBM becomes the first computer company to ever achieve this feat, selling 10,000 computers of one kind.
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IBM creates a memory chip that was one of the key pieces of modern computer development
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The 1970 IBM System 370, was the first computer to use virtual memory for the first time
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IBM created the first computer that is able to ask and answer question electroniblly.
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IBM wins the 1986 nobel prize for their work in scanning tunneling microscopy.
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IBM wins the 1987 nobel prize for their breakthrough discovery in superconductivity in a new class of materials.
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IBM hits 33 billion in revenue throughout the companies life.
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Lenovo purchases IBM's personal computing division, completing IBM's transition into a services company and away from selling directly to consumers.
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IBM turns 100 and celebrates by passing microsoft in surface value for the first time in 15 years.