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    The IBM 610 Auto-Point Computer is one of the first personal computers, in the sense of a computer to be used by one person whose previous experience...
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    produced. The IBM 610 was a vacuum-tube computer designed by John Lentz at the Watson Lab of Columbia University. It was announced by IBM as the 610 Auto-Point...
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    IBM 7340: IBM 7070/IBM 7074 hypertape (7074 only) IBM 7400: IBM 7070/IBM 7074 Printer IBM 7500: IBM 7070/IBM 7074 Card Reader IBM 7501: IBM 7070/IBM 7074...
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    only add and subtract. In 1931 IBM introduced an electromechanical multiplying punch, the IBM 601. After World War II, IBM made a version, the 603, that...
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  • IBM manufactured magnetic disk storage devices from 1956 to 2003, when it sold its hard disk drive business to Hitachi. Both the hard disk drive (HDD)...
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  • obtained its first computer, an IBM 610, used in conjunction with the Cambridge Research Center IBM 650. The IBM 610 was a very primitive machine, the...
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    The IBM 1620 was announced by IBM on October 21, 1959, and marketed as an inexpensive scientific computer. After a total production of about two thousand...
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    The IBM System/390 is a discontinued mainframe product family implementing ESA/390, the fifth generation of the System/360 instruction set architecture...
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  • computer used by one person and controlled by a keyboard, the IBM 610, is invented by IBM. 1957: The first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, is launched...
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    system. IBM BladeCenter JS12 (POWER6) IBM BladeCenter JS22 (POWER6) IBM BladeCenter JS23 (POWER6) IBM BladeCenter JS43 (POWER6) IBM eServer pSeries 610 (7028-6C1...
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    900 ft) are supported, although IBM documents routinely stated the maximum supported coax cable length was 2,000 ft (610 m). Originally devices were equipped...
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  • (1996). Building IBM: Shaping an Industry and its Technology. The MIT Press. IBM100, Patents and Inventions, https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/patents/...
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    The IBM 305 RAMAC was the first commercial computer that used a moving-head hard disk drive (magnetic disk storage) for secondary storage. The system...
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    The IBM 3592 is a series of enterprise-class tape drives and corresponding magnetic tape data storage media formats developed by IBM. The first drive,...
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    platter about 1⁄8-inch (3.2 mm) thick and 24 inches (610 mm) in diameter. While the earlier IBM disk drives used only two read/write heads per arm, the...
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    card installed in some 1990s-era Macintosh computers, such as the Centris 610 or Performa 630, that allowed them to run personal computer (PC) software...
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  • Stream is a general name for a family of page description language used by IBM printers, which includes all Proprinter, Quietwriter, Quickwriter, LaserPrinter...
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    for microcomputers. Later, IBM bought the DOS (Disk Operating System) from Microsoft. After modifications requested by IBM, the resulting system was called...
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  • BID 610 or Alvis was a British cipher machine used by both British and Canadian governments. It was the first fully transistorised full-duplex online...
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    older brother's new startup in California, where he had access to early IBM Personal Computers. Sweeney spent the week there, learning BASIC and establishing...
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  • part of the Apple Macintosh line of computers; they were designed to run IBM's AIX operating system and their ROM specifically prevented booting the classic...
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  • ThinkCentre M series (category X86 IBM personal computers)
    ThinkCentre product line. Formerly an IBM brand, Lenovo acquired the ThinkCentre desktop brand following its purchase of IBM's Personal Computing Division (PCD)...
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    to its high complexity. Apple did not consider IBM's POWER1 processor as an option, believing that IBM would not be willing to license it to third parties...
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    23, 2021. Retrieved May 23, 2021. "7028-6E1 IBM eServer pSeries 610 Deskside Server Model 6E1". www-01.ibm.com. June 7, 2016. Retrieved May 24, 2021. "Cray...
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    significant performance increase, the Mac was not fully competitive with commodity IBM PC compatibles throughout the 1990s. The 1996 acquisition of NeXT returned...
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  • Topcoder (section IBM)
    diseases in Middle East. Since 2016 IBM has been collaborating with Topcoder to promote their cloud platform, IBM Cloud, and IBM Watson services, in particular...
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  • IBM's System/360, announced in 1964, was designed as a unified hardware architecture supporting both scientific and commercial applications, and IBM developed...
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    much bigger and more expensive mainframes or minicomputers such as from IBM, that either require additional, expensive consultancy from the supplier...
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    approach broke new ground and by the end of the 1970s (before the first IBM PC was announced in 1981) over ten thousand ARCNET LAN installations were...
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  • (base 10). For example, the IBM 701 (1952) used a binary methods and could address 2048 words of 36 bits each, while the IBM 702 (1953) used a decimal system...
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