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What is IBM COMPUTers?

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A computer and computing services company named International Business Machines.

Originally founded in 1924 following the merger in 1911 of 3 companies into the holding company CTR (Computing Tabulating Recording):

  • Tabulating Machine Company, made electromechanical punchcard data processing machines and punchcards (the product IBM was most known for from 1932 until the 1970s, because of their use by Social Security for printing benefit checks)
  • International Time Recording Company (itself a merger of Bundy Manufacturing Company, Willard and Frick Manufacturing Company, Chicago Time-Register Company, Del Ray Register Company, and Syracuse Time Recorder Company), made mostly timeclocks
  • Computing Scale Company, made various items including weighing scales, automatic meat slicers, and coffee grinders
With the purchase of Electromatic Typewriters, Inc. in 1933, IBM added electric typewriters to its line of office equipment.

By the time IBM made their first electronic digital computers in the early 1950s (NORC and the IBM 701 Defense Calculator) they had an extremely diversified and correspondingly difficult to manage product line. It was not until the late 1960s that they began to fully commit to the computer business and selloff unrelated product lines, a process that continues to the present day (e.g. the selloff of their PC line to Lenova in China as IBM itself concentrates more on services than actual hardware).

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An IBM computer is the typical PC you will see in homes and offices. They usually run a variation of Microsoft Windows and can be made from any compatible hardware (as opposed to a mac). The name of an IBM computer comes from the first people to make a computer, and it does not neceseraly need to be branded IBM

IBM computers on the other hand is a company that makes and sells computer systems and software. (although lenovo recently took over the "making of computers" department)

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IBM stands for (International Business Machines)

IBM is known as the world's largest technology consulting company. Also made famous by the IBM ThinkPad.

IBM's PC manufacturing name has been transfered over to Lenovo, however, you still get the same rugged quality of an IBM ThinkPad in a Lenovo ThinkPad.

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IBM is an American company founded in 1911, with it’s headquarter in N.Y. The company manufactures and market computer hardware, software and other business solutions.

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