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International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology...

Timeline of Events

1944

8.7.1944

IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).

1954

1.7.1954

Georgetown-IBM experiment: the first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM.

1956

9.13.1956

IBM introduces the first computer disk storage unit, the RAMAC 305.

1969

7.8.1969

IBM CICS is made generally available for the 360 mainframe computer.

1996

2.10.1996

The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov for the first time.