Topic: Happy Birthday IBM 100 Years Young $197 Billion dollar market cap
Syntax started this discussion 15 years ago #7,611
Ninjj joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 17 minutes later[^] [v] #132,035
they neglected to mention their nazi affiliation in the 40s
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what were they even doing around before computers
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@previous (dreamworks)
One fast look at the video and yes it is a long video but one view of 50 seconds will tell you
Or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM
So yes to starting out computing wayyyyyyy back in 1885
"Starting in the 1880s, various technologies came into existence that would form part of IBM's predecessor company. Julius E. Pitrap patented the computing scale in 1885,[13] Alexander Dey invented the dial recorder in 1888,[14] and a year later Herman Hollerith patented the Electric Tabulating Machine,[15] and Willard Bundy invented a time clock to record a worker's arrival and departure time on a paper tape.[16] On June 16, 1911, these technologies and their respective companies were merged by Charles Ranlett Flint to form the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (C-T-R).[17] The New York City-based company had 1,300 employees and offices and plants in Endicott and Binghamton, New York; Dayton, Ohio; Detroit, Michigan; Washington, D.C.; and Toronto, Ontario. It manufactured and sold machinery ranging from commercial scales and industrial time recorders to meat and cheese slicers, along with tabulators and punched cards.
@previous (dreamworks)
One fast look at the video and yes it is a long video but one view of 50 seconds will tell you
Or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM
So yes to starting out computing wayyyyyyy back in 1885
"Starting in the 1880s, various technologies came into existence that would form part of IBM's predecessor company. Julius E. Pitrap patented the computing scale in 1885,[13] Alexander Dey invented the dial recorder in 1888,[14] and a year later Herman Hollerith patented the Electric Tabulating Machine,[15] and Willard Bundy invented a time clock to record a worker's arrival and departure time on a paper tape.[16] On June 16, 1911, these technologies and their respective companies were merged by Charles Ranlett Flint to form the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (C-T-R).[17] The New York City-based company had 1,300 employees and offices and plants in Endicott and Binghamton, New York; Dayton, Ohio; Detroit, Michigan; Washington, D.C.; and Toronto, Ontario. It manufactured and sold machinery ranging from commercial scales and industrial time recorders to meat and cheese slicers, along with tabulators and punched cards.