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Monday, September 6, 2021

Basic timeline of IBM

This post is a basic timeline of IBM. There are 87 events listed below chronologically. Sources: Wikipedia

• Tabulating Machine Company (1884)
• Bundy Manufacturing Company is founded (1889)
• Punch cards used for U.S. Census (1890)
• International Time Recording Company is founded (1900)
• Computing Scale Company of America is founded (1901)
• Hollerith Type I Tabulator automatic card feed (1906)
• Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) is founded as a holding company (1911)
• Thomas J. Watson becomes President of CTR (1915)
• Printing tabulator (1920)
• Renamed to International Business Machines (IBM) (1924)
• Subtracting tabulator with 80-column card (1928)
• Multiplying tabulator (1931)
• IBM 801 check clearing machine (1934)
• IBM 077 Collator (1937)
• IBM 805 test scoring machine (1937)
• ASCC large-scale calculating computer (1944)
• Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory (1945)
• IBM 603 commercial calculator (1946)
• IBM SSEC digital calculating machine (1948)
• IBM 701 electronic computer (1952)
• Magnetic tape vacuum column (1952)
• IBM 650 magnetic drum data-processing machine (1953)
• Naval Ordinance Research Computer (1954)
• IBM 305 RAMAC magnetic hard disk drive (1956)
• U.S. Justice Department consent decree against IBM (1956)
• IBM 704 programmed to play checkers (1956)
• FORTRAN programming language (1957)
• SAGE AN/FSQ-7 defense computer (1958)
• IBM 1401 transistorized computer (1959)
• IBM 1403 chain printer (1959)
• IBM 7030 Stretch computer (1961)
• Thomas J. Watson Research Center (1961)
• IBM Selectric typewriter (1961)
• SABRE airline reservation system (1962)
• IBM System/360 computer (1964)
• Dynamic Random-Access Memory (DRAM) (1966)
• IBM System/4 Pi computer (1966)
• Information Management System (IMS) (1966)
• Benoit Mandelbrot discovers fractal geometry at IBM (1967)
• Customer Information Control System (CICS) (1968)
• Magnetic stripe cards (1969)
• First moon landing uses IBM computers (1969)
• IBM System/370 computer (1970)
• Relational database (1970)
• IBM VNET networking system (1970's)
• Speech recognition (1971)
• Floppy disk (1971)
• 3614 Consumer Transaction Facility (1973)
• IBM 3340 disk unit (1973)
• Systems Network Architecture (SNA) protocol (1974)
• IBM 5100 portable computer (1975)
• IBM 3800 laser printer (1976)
• Data Encryption Standard (DES) (1977)
• Universal Product Code (UPC) (1979)
• IBM 6670 Information Distributor (1979)
• IBM 3081 thermal conduction module (1980)
• Reduced instruction set computing (RISC) (1980)
• IBM Personal Computer (1981)
• LASIK eye surgery (1981)
• Trellis-coded modulation (1982)
• IBM PCjr (1983)
• IBM 3480 magnetic tape system (1984)
• Token Ring networks (1985)
• High Integrity Computing Laboratory established (1987)
• IBM AS/400 (1988)
• National Science Foundation Network (NSFNET) (1988)
• Silicon germanium transistors (1989)
• IBM System/390 computer (1990)
• RISC System/6000 computer (1990)
• ThinkPad computers (1992)
• Scalable POWERparallel System (1993)
• RAMAC Array Storage Family (1994)
• IBM Personal Dictation System (IPDS) (1994)
• IBM acquires Lotus Development Corporation (1995)
• Deep Blue (IBM RS/6000 SP) beats Garry Kasparov in chess (1997)
• CMOS Gigaprocessor (1998)
• Blue Gene computer architecture project (1999)
• Quantum mirage nanotechnology (2000)
• IBM ASCI White (2000)
• Flexible transistors (2000)
• Carbon nanotube transistors (2001)
• Crusade Against Cancer project (2005)
• IBM PC division is sold to Lenovo (2005)
• IBM Stream Computing (2007)
• Watson beats Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter in Jeopardy! (2011)
• IBM acquires Red Hat (2018)
• IBM announces company split (2020)