Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 173,091 pages of information and 249,766 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

IBM

From Graces Guide
1983.
1983.
1983.
Exhibit at Millicent Museum.
Golfball typewriter.
2000.

International Business Machines

Originally established as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company

1924 Name changed to IBM

1951 In Britain the company’s subsidiary went public as I. B. M. United Kingdom

By 1967 IBM had installed a total of 21,500 computers, including 5730 IBM System 360s[1]

1981 Put first IBM PC on sale. This was followed by many clones, the first fully equivalent machine, the Compaq Portable, entered the market a year later.


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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ British Computer Industry - Success Or Failure? by Nicholas Enticknap [1]
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