February 16, 2011 - Watson, an IBM Super
computer beats the two best human Jeopardy players in a three day event with
a score greater than the two human players combined.
2005 - Lenovo completes the acquisition of IBM's Personal Computing Division. December 08, 2004 - IBM sells its computing division to Lenovo Group for $1.75 billion. December 31, 2002 - Hitachi closes deal to purchase IBM's hard disk drive operation for $2.05 billion. August 04, 2002 - IBM acquires Pricewaterhouse Coopers Consulting.
November 2001 - IBM starts the
Eclipse project. August 14, 2001 - IBM stops selling AMD-based PCs in North America. January 1, 1999 - All IBM antivirus technical support problems are now addressed through Symantec. November 10, 1999 - IBM today announced the industry's largest resolution, production-level LCD monitor panel available.
December 5, 1995 - IBM unveils Deep Blue, a
parallel computing system that will later play the World Chess Champion Gary
Kasparov. 1986 - The AT or 101 key keyboard is introduced by IBM. 1984 - IBM's AT computer is introduced. 1984 - IBM introduces its portable computer, the IBM Portable weighing in at 30 pounds.
August 12, 1981 - IBM joins the computer
race by introducing IBM 5150 PC that used the 4.77-MHz Intel 8088 processor, 16
kB base memory, and PC-DOS (MS-DOS) for the
OS.
1980 - IBM hires Microsoft to develop versions of BASIC, FORTRAN, COBOL, and Pascal for the PC being developed by IBM.
July 27, 1961 - The first
IBM Selectric typewriter is released.
1956 - On September 13, 1956 the IBM 305 RAMAC is the first computer to be shipped with a hard disk drive that contained 50 24-inch platters and was capable of storing 5 million characters and weighed a ton.
July 25, 1911 - IBM is granted its first
patent #998,631.
October 11, 1907 - IBM files
for its first U.S. patent, #998,631.
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