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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.
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.
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.
1981
- IBM
joins the computer race by introducing IBM PC, which runs the new
MS-DOS
operating system.
1980
- IBM
hires Microsoft to develop versions of
BASIC,
FORTRAN,
COBOL, and
Pascal for the PC being developed by IBM.
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.
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