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The Great Ibm Story From Punch Cards To Deep Blue And The Reinvention Of A Tech Giant

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Thomas Watson and the power of Think

marc Thomas Watson Sr. introduced the "Think" slogan, shaping IBM's corporate culture for decades.

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The merging of three companies into CTR

marc Three distinct manufacturing businesses merged in 1911 to form the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company.

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Fun Facts

Fun Fact

Punch card music: Early IBM punch cards were sometimes used as organ grinder music sheets, translating paper holes into beautiful street melodies.

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Quizzes

Quiz

In what year did the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company officially change its name to International Business Machines (IBM)?

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How did early IBM punch cards store data so that mechanical brushes could read them?

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Which legendary IBM leader introduced the iconic one-word slogan "Think" in the 1910s?

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What physical material was primarily used to make the early IBM punch cards?

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Which massive 1935 United States government program relied on IBM punch cards to manage records for millions of citizens?

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What was IBM originally named when it was formed in 1911?

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What crisis in the late 19th century led to the invention of the punch card tabulating machine?

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Besides tabulators, what other common retail machine did IBM's predecessor CTR manufacture?

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Glosario

Glossary
punch card (noun)
A card perforated with holes in specific positions to represent data or instructions for a computer. In 1928, IBM introduced its iconic eighty-column format, which became the global data processing standard.

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Gossip

Gossip

Which tech slogan do you find most inspiring?

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Videos

marc Herman Hollerith's punch card machine solved the 1890 census crisis, sparking modern data processing.

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marc Thomas Watson Sr. transformed CTR into IBM, using "Think" to inspire a global tech giant.

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marc In 1911, Charles Flint merged three companies, creating CTR, the precursor to IBM.

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marc IBM used punch cards to track 26 million Social Security work histories, becoming a key government partner.

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