100 years ago, IBM was born

Kent Sharkey

IEEE Spectrum[^]:

It’s true that the businesses that formed IBM began in the late 1800s. But it’s also true that a birth occurred in February 1924, with the renaming of the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. as the International Business Machines Corp.

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."

OK, Watson probably didn't say that, but why should reality hold me down? ;P Whatever happened to those guys?

David ONeil

Kent Sharkey wrote:

Whatever happened to those guys?

Maybe they were counted? /s [IBM and the Holocaust - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM\_and\_the\_Holocaust#Summary)

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Kent Sharkey wrote:

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."

Today, the word is "I think there is a world market for maybe five cloud services".

Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.

Daniel Pfeffer

David O'Neil wrote:

Maybe they were counted?

And found wanting? [Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belshazzar's\_feast#:~:text=Daniel reads the words "MENE,to the Medes and Persians.)

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.