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Zürich.
Illustrations of famous buildings of Switzerland for IBM. They printed them on curtains for an exhibition
International Business Machines Corporation.
Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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On Explore #333 (Jan 25, 2007)
IBM's PCjr was a failure, or so I gather, but this one was more successful. Released only in Australia and New Zealand, I spotted a couple at a garage sale many years ago, and had to grab them. There used to be a cartridge-based version of Lotus 123 for this computer, on two cartridges, which always impressed me.
The PCjr was introduced in 1984 but it was a bit of a flop. Designed as a home-friendly machine with a ROM slot (for games) and ports for joysticks, IBM priced the PCjr in the "no man's land" between inexpensive alternatives like the Commodore 64 and more expensive machines. It was also incompatible with a wide swath of IBM PC software and had a smaller keyboard.
Research Triangle Park, Durham NC, USA - IBM’s largest campus in the US which, at its peak, had 12,000 workers. It’s roughly half that now that manufacturing was sold off.
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The console of the Lab’s IBM 7030 (STRETCH), which was delivered to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in March 1961. The 7030 was IBM's response to the LARC (Livermore Advanced Research Computer) built by Remington Rand. It provided the largest memory for any machine then in use at the Laboratory. It used 72 bit words of which the last 8 bits were for Error Correction and Control.
International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE: IBM), or IBM, is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation, with headquarters in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and markets computer hardware and software, and offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology.
The company was founded in 1911 as the Computing Tabulating Recording Company (CTR) through a merger of three companies: the Tabulating Machine Company, the International Time Recording Company, and the Computing Scale Company. CTR adopted the name International Business Machines in 1924, using a name previously designated to CTR's subsidiary in Canada and later South America. Security analysts nicknamed IBM Big Blue in recognition of IBM's common use of blue in products, packaging, and logo.
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Starting in the 1880s, various technologies came into existence that would form part of IBM's predecessor company. Julius E. Pitrap patented the computing scale in 1885; Alexander Dey invented the dial recorder (1888); in 1889, Herman Hollerith patented the Electric Tabulating Machine and Willard Bundy invented a time clock to record a worker's arrival and departure time on a paper tape.
On June 16, 1911, these technologies and their respective companies were merged by Charles Ranlett Flint to form the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (C-T-R). The New York City-based company had 1,300 employees and offices and plants in Endicott and Binghamton, New York; Dayton, Ohio; Detroit, Michigan; Washington, D.C.; and Toronto, Ontario. It manufactured and sold machinery ranging from commercial scales and industrial time recorders to meat and cheese slicers, along with tabulators and punched cards.
Flint recruited Thomas J. Watson, Sr., from the National Cash Register Company to help lead the company in 1914. Watson implemented "generous sales incentives, a focus on customer service, an insistence on well-groomed, dark-suited salesmen and an evangelical fervor for instilling company pride and loyalty in every worker". His favorite slogan, "THINK", became a mantra for C-T-R's employees, and within 11 months of joining C-T-R, Watson became its president. The company focused on providing large-scale, custom-built tabulating solutions for businesses, leaving the market for small office products to others. During Watson's first four years, revenues more than doubled to $9 million and the company's operations expanded to Europe, South America, Asia, and Australia. On February 14, 1924, C-T-R was renamed the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), citing the need to align its name with the "growth and extension of [its] activities".
In 1937, IBM's tabulating equipment enabled organizations to process unprecedented amounts of data, its clients including the U.S. Government, during its first effort to maintain the employment records for 26 million people pursuant to the Social Security Act, and the Third Reich, largely through the German subsidiary Dehomag. During the Second World War the company produced small arms for the American war effort (M1 Carbine, and Browning Automatic Rifle).
In 1952, Thomas J. Watson, Jr., became president of the company, ending almost 40 years of leadership by his father. In 1956, Arthur L. Samuel of IBM's Poughkeepsie, New York, laboratory programmed an IBM 704 to play checkers using a method in which the machine can "learn" from its own experience. It is believed to be the first "self-learning" program, a demonstration of the concept of artificial intelligence. In 1957, IBM developed the FORTRAN (FORmula TRANslation) scientific programming language. In 1961, Thomas J. Watson, Jr., was elected chairman of the board and Albert L. Williams became president of the company. IBM develops the SABRE (Semi-Automatic Business-Related Environment) reservation system for American Airlines. The IBM Selectric typewriter was a highly successful model line of electric typewriters introduced by IBM on July 31, 1961.
In 1963, IBM employees and computers helped NASA track the orbital flight of the Mercury astronauts, and a year later, the company moved its corporate headquarters from New York City to Armonk, New York. The latter half of that decade saw IBM continue its support of space exploration, with IBM participating in the 1965 Gemini flights, the 1966 Saturn flights, and the 1969 mission to land a man on the moon.
On April 7, 1964 IBM announced the first computer system family, the IBM System/360. Sold between 1964 and 1978, it was the first family of computers designed to cover the complete range of applications, from small to large, both commercial and scientific. For the first time, companies could upgrade their computing capabilities with a new model without rewriting their applications.
In 1974, IBM engineer George J. Laurer developed the Universal Product Code. On October 11, 1973, IBM introduced the IBM 3660, a laser-scanning point-of-sale barcode reader which would become the workhorse of retail checkouts. On June 26, 1974, at Marsh's supermarket in Troy, Ohio, a pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit chewing gum was the first-ever product scanned. That pack is now on display at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.
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In June 1954, the first of two IBM 701s arrived at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The IBM 701 had a 4,096-word memory, each word being 36-bits; equivalent to almost 12 decimal digits. The parallel feature meant the machine did most of its internal operations including arithmetical on whole words and much faster than the Lab’s UNIVAC. According to computation pioneer George Michael, however, the machine “freely made mistakes, but never reported them.” Input for the 701 was prepared on a keypunch and entered through a card reader.
Tree, IBM Glen, Union, NY (IBM Glen named after the corporation founded in the neighboring town of Endicott, NY)
One of the many IBM typewrites at the Endicott History & Heritage Center in Endicott, NY. Exhibits document the history of IBM from the earliest punch card machines to the System 360.
Just installed my "new" 1986 IBM Model M keyboard.
Why the hell did I buy a 26 year old keyboard I hear you ask? Ergonomics and nostalgia, in that order. A long time ago before personal computers, IBM spent decades and a shite load of money perfecting the typewriter experience which centered around the user's experience when interacting with the keyboard. Most of that knowledge and design doesn't exist in any of the mass manufactured keyboards today
Features:
- Designed by mechanical engineers
- Made in the good ol' US of A
- Buckling spring key-switches are technically superior because they provide visual , tactile and auditory feedback
- Built like a tank, will most likely outlive you.
Purchased from Clicky Keyboards. Delivery was fast, keyboard looks, feels and smells brand new.
My car... Same location as the other camaro... loved the place so I had to do it with my own car. :)
I got more from this set coming up.
Strobist Spirit
Not really strobist but Strobist Spirit? getting your light off the camera and using a small source.. and done afford ably.
So how did I do it?
Small light source running off a another car's cigarette lighter. Long exposure of about 6 seconds to walk around the car.
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…reflected in the cabinetry of the world’s first disk drive, the 1956 RAMAC prototype, on its 50-year anniversary.
The size of a large refrigerator.
5 Megabytes on fifty 24” disks.
2KBits/sq. inch areal density; 20 tracks/inch; 100 bits/inch
8.8 kbits/second transfer rate.
The disk drive has improved more dramatically than the semiconductor (reflected in Moore’s law). Disk drive areal storage density has improved over 35 million times since 1956. (IBM Paper with long term graphs)
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The "Typing Element" (to give it its proper name) from an IBM golfball typewriter. I found the typewriter in a skip, and was able to retrieve the golf ball for posterity. Incidentally, this is the one-thousandth photo that I've taken with my Canon 30D camera.