COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
EARLY COMPUTING DEVICES
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IBM
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Apple
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Microsoft
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Detailed explanation-1: -Hollerith founded a company that was amalgamated in 1911 with several other companies to form the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company . In 1924, the company was renamed “International Business Machines” (IBM) and became one of the largest and most successful companies of the 20th century.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Tabulating Machine Company continued punching away until it consolidated with the New York-based Computing Tabulating Recording Company in 1911 and was renamed IBM in the mid-1920s.
Detailed explanation-3: -Herman Hollerith is widely regarded as the father of modern automatic computation. He chose the punched card as the basis for storing and processing information and he built the first punched-card tabulating and sorting machines as well as the first key punch, and he founded the company that was to become IBM.