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Brief Overview of IBM. IBM stands for International Business Machines Corporation.Founded in 1896 in Endicott, NY. Herman Hollerith. His punch card tabulating technology was used for the 1890 census, saving the U.S. government $5 mil.Punch cards become the industry standard of input for the next 7
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1. History of Computing at IBM by Brian Ho
CS147 Dr. Sin-Min Lee
Fall 2009
2. Brief Overview of IBM IBM stands for International Business Machines Corporation.
Founded in 1896 in Endicott, NY
3. Herman Hollerith His punch card tabulating technology was used for the 1890 census, saving the U.S. government $5 mil. Punch cards become the industry standard of input for the next 70 years. His company was later merged into what is now IBM.