This post is a basic timeline of IBM. There are 87 events listed below chronologically. Sources: Wikipedia
- Tabulating Machine Company (1884)
- Bundy Manufacturing Company is founded (1889)
- Punch cards used for U.S. Census (1890)
- International Time Recording Company is founded (1900)
- Computing Scale Company of America is founded (1901)
- Hollerith Type I Tabulator automatic card feed (1906)
- Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) is founded as a holding company (1911)
- Thomas J. Watson becomes President of CTR (1915)
- Printing tabulator (1920)
- Renamed to International Business Machines (IBM) (1924)
- Subtracting tabulator with 80-column card (1928)
- Multiplying tabulator (1931)
- IBM 801 check clearing machine (1934)
- IBM 077 Collator (1937)
- IBM 805 test scoring machine (1937)
- ASCC large-scale calculating computer (1944)
- Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory (1945)
- IBM 603 commercial calculator (1946)
- IBM SSEC digital calculating machine (1948)
- IBM 701 electronic computer (1952)
- Magnetic tape vacuum column (1952)
- IBM 650 magnetic drum data-processing machine (1953)
- Naval Ordinance Research Computer (1954)
- IBM 305 RAMAC magnetic hard disk drive (1956)
- U.S. Justice Department consent decree against IBM (1956)
- IBM 704 programmed to play checkers (1956)
- FORTRAN programming language (1957)
- SAGE AN/FSQ-7 defense computer (1958)
- IBM 1401 transistorized computer (1959)
- IBM 1403 chain printer (1959)
- IBM 7030 Stretch computer (1961)
- Thomas J. Watson Research Center (1961)
- IBM Selectric typewriter (1961)
- SABRE airline reservation system (1962)
- IBM System/360 computer (1964)
- Dynamic Random-Access Memory (DRAM) (1966)
- IBM System/4 Pi computer (1966)
- Information Management System (IMS) (1966)
- Benoit Mandelbrot discovers fractal geometry at IBM (1967)
- Customer Information Control System (CICS) (1968)
- Magnetic stripe cards (1969)
- First moon landing uses IBM computers (1969)
- IBM System/370 computer (1970)
- Relational database (1970)
- IBM VNET networking system (1970's)
- Speech recognition (1971)
- Floppy disk (1971)
- 3614 Consumer Transaction Facility (1973)
- IBM 3340 disk unit (1973)
- Systems Network Architecture (SNA) protocol (1974)
- IBM 5100 portable computer (1975)
- IBM 3800 laser printer (1976)
- Data Encryption Standard (DES) (1977)
- Universal Product Code (UPC) (1979)
- IBM 6670 Information Distributor (1979)
- IBM 3081 thermal conduction module (1980)
- Reduced instruction set computing (RISC) (1980)
- IBM Personal Computer (1981)
- LASIK eye surgery (1981)
- Trellis-coded modulation (1982)
- IBM PCjr (1983)
- IBM 3480 magnetic tape system (1984)
- Token Ring networks (1985)
- High Integrity Computing Laboratory established (1987)
- IBM AS/400 (1988)
- National Science Foundation Network (NSFNET) (1988)
- Silicon germanium transistors (1989)
- IBM System/390 computer (1990)
- RISC System/6000 computer (1990)
- ThinkPad computers (1992)
- Scalable POWERparallel System (1993)
- RAMAC Array Storage Family (1994)
- IBM Personal Dictation System (IPDS) (1994)
- IBM acquires Lotus Development Corporation (1995)
- Deep Blue (IBM RS/6000 SP) beats Garry Kasparov in chess (1997)
- CMOS Gigaprocessor (1998)
- Blue Gene computer architecture project (1999)
- Quantum mirage nanotechnology (2000)
- IBM ASCI White (2000)
- Flexible transistors (2000)
- Carbon nanotube transistors (2001)
- Crusade Against Cancer project (2005)
- IBM PC division is sold to Lenovo (2005)
- IBM Stream Computing (2007)
- Watson beats Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter in Jeopardy! (2011)
- IBM acquires Red Hat (2018)
- IBM announces company split (2020)
