COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
EARLY COMPUTING DEVICES
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Apple
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Hewlett Packard (HP)
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IBM
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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: -IBM (International Business Machines Corporation) is a multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, N.Y. It was founded in 1911 as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) and was later renamed to IBM in 1924.
Detailed explanation-3: -The incorporation of Bundy Manufacturing Co. (time recording equipment), the first of many components that eventually became the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, Inc. (C-T-R), and later IBM.
Detailed explanation-4: -A 1924 storefront marks the “Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, Manufacturers of International Business Machines.” Thomas J. Watson Sr.’s February 13, 1924, letter explaining C-T-R’s new name-International Business Machines Corporation.