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  • CTR is formed

    CTR is formed
    The Computing-Tabulating-Record Company (CTR) was formed in 1911. The picture shows one of their early product ads. The company sold time and tabulating equipment as well as scales.

  • First CTR printing tabulator

    First CTR printing tabulator
    Not only improves speed and accuracy, but also acts as a foundation for further advancements of the tabulation process down the road

  • IBM

    IBM
    CTR is renamed to IBM. One of IBM's three basic beliefs was to provide the best service to their customers says former Chairman, Thomas J. Watson Jr..

  • IBM 805 test scoring machine

    IBM 805 test scoring machine
    Used to process standardized tests. The device scored answer sheets marked with special pencils. First in a longline of similar devices that are still in use today.

  • First research lab

    First research lab
    The first lab dedicated to pure science research not product development.

  • IBM SSEC, first large scale digital calculating machine

    IBM SSEC, first large scale digital calculating machine
    An electromechanical computer built by IBM. It was the first computer that could modify a stored program.

  • FORTRAN

    FORTRAN
    A computer programming language created in 1957 by John Backus. "In the early 1950's John Backus convinced his managers at IBM to let him put together a team to design a language and write a compiler for it."
    https://www.britannica.com/technology/FORTRAN

  • IBM system/360

    IBM system/360
    A family of mainframe computer systems.

  • IBM computers on Gemini space flights

    IBM computers on Gemini space flights
    The computers accepted data and computed and reported navigation and control information back.

  • IBM assists the first moon landing

    IBM assists the first moon landing
    NASA employed five system/360's for the Apollo 11 mission. The computer calculated the liftoff data for the astronauts.

  • IBM 5100 portable computer

    IBM 5100 portable computer
    Introduced approximately six years before the IBM personal computer. It weighed about 50 pounds.

  • Nobel Prize

    Nobel Prize
    Muller and Bednorz of IBM won the Nobel Prize for high temperature conductivity.

  • system/390

    system/390
    IBM's next mainframe offering. Easier to integrate client/server environments while greatly reducing operating costs.

  • IBM Personal Dictation System

    IBM Personal Dictation System
    IBM launches its Personal Dictation System (IPDS). The system takes dictation and allows users to play back their recording for editing purpose.

  • Partnership with MIT

    Partnership with MIT
    IBM partnered with MIT to create the MIT-IBM Watson AI lab for the sole purpose of enhancing AI.