2012 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
6. IBM
Published in:
A Brief History of Computing
Abstract
This chapter considers the history of International Business Machines (IBM). This company is a household name and has a long and distinguished history. It is a major corporation that has made major contributions to the computing field and in developing the computers that we are familiar with today. Its origins go back to the processing of the 1880 population census of the United States.