IBM Has Done Amazing Stuff in the Last 100 Years
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A company with an amazing history.
The computer industry is fairly young compared to many other industries, but one of founding pioneer companies of the information age is now officially a century old.
IBM, or International Business Machines, has changed our world for the last 100 years. The business may now have many more innovators, but IBM still stands as one of the biggest and most respected firms.
Today, IBM may be the all-business company that makes cool machines that kick ass on Jeopardy, but it's done other lots of amazing, world-changing things. Just check out the retrospective videos below to see what we mean.
A Look Back at the Last 100 Years of Computing With IBM
A Look Back at the Last 100 Years of Computing With IBM
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just because IBM developed the tech it does not mean that they are the bad guys...without this company we would not be able to do a lot of things...so stop your complaining
So You want progress above human lives? and Its not IBM only who made this progress! And most of this progress has little to do with the health and Wealth of Humans!!! NOTE: Cure for Diseases is In Nature and IN Your BODY!! So Helping Mankind is not what IBM DID!!! Killing Millions in order to Create New Millions isn't much of improvement.
Yawn...
So, when are you going to condemn all the weapon and ammo manufacturers for killing those billions of people since the invention of the gun?
And, Siemens don't brag about the design work they did on the gas chambers either...
The only thing they got going on is hardware.
Cheers!
I hope you're trolling.
Still, they did not need IBM to do what they did. The companies that projected and supplied the chambers on the other hand...
Also, prople die in the name of progress. Yes, that's unfortunate. But in the long run, don't we end up saving even more?
More people died in useless 'holy' wars than in (also useless) gas chambers. What does that tell you?
Not to steal any of their thunder, but I just cant see where IBM has been at the front of any major technology breakthrough in the last 10 to 20 years.
Intel, AMD, Motorola, Hitachi and others come to mind when I think about it.
As you sit there and type on an IBM Clone PC.
There are many devices out there which can do terrible harm, but its use only depends on man. When there were no guns men used rocks and sticks, will we blame nature then ? well we could , its better always to blame anything else then take responsibility.
IBM invented the hard drive. Without IBM there would be no Hitachi (Who bought IBM's hard drive factory when IBM sold it to focus on services and not products). The "byte" unit of digital information was invented by IBM. No byte, no Intel, Motorola or anybody else. The latest smartphone is not a technology breakthrough, true technology breakthroughs do not happen on TV... they happen on Almaden, Haifa or any other IBM Research Center. Quantum computing research is being funded by IBM by the BILLIONS of dollars and there are fully functional quantum computers already working on the labs... just to mention ONE true technology breakthrough from IBM of the last 20 years. Get your facts right.
I don't believe IBM alone brought my PC! its a build up of situations that lead to the creation!. its a business thing, so if IBM did not do it.. then someone els. I rather have to wait 5-10 year to get a honest product than one with blood. but YEAH i Know WELCOME to EARTH! Nearly no product is Fair!