A Look Back at IBM

In the USA, year 1911, the Tabulating Machine Company, the International Time Recording Company, and the Computing Scale Company of America, merged to form one company, the Computing Tabulating Recording Company.

This company was at the cutting edge of the hi-tech of its time, and quickly grew, and in 1924, the then CEO Thomas J. Watson Snr. Changed the name to International Business Machines Corporation, or IBM.

Research and development was then, as now, at the forefront of their focus, and they began to design and produce adding machines and calculators in Continue reading →