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International Business Machines Corporation (operating under its trademark IBM), historically nicknamed Big Blue due to the prominent use of blue for its signature mainframe systems, is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York.
One of the world's oldest and largest technology companies, IBM is responsible for the creation of many technological innovations, including ATMs, DRAM, floppy disks, hard disk drives, magnetic stripe cards, SQL, and UPC barcodes, but today it's their creation of the IBM PC in 1981 that they are most well known for.
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In 1911 the company was founded as the Computing Tabulating Recording Company (short: CTR) through a merger of three other companies: Tabulating Machine Company, International Time Recording Company and Computing Scale Company. Its today's company name was rename in 1924.
Very popular was IBM through the introducing of the PC in 1981, which is found in many households of the industrial nations today. The first PC contain a Intel 8088 CPU, 64 KB RAM and a disk drive. The first OS was IBM PC-DOS or MS-DOS. The first versions of IBM-/MS-DOS had a text editor and a BASIC compiler (QBASIC). This standard was the start of build own PC version by several manufactors. These PCs are called "IBM compatible".
Also IBM developed his own operating systems like IBM PC-DOS and OS/2, which aren't developed further.
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