IBM was formed from a merger of three (at the time) major companies:
These three companies were merged to form the Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation. They were based in Endicott, NY. The name was changed by CTR President Thomas J. Watson I in 1924 to the International Business Machine company (IBM).
Today IBM is headquartered @ Armonk, NY. In 2009 they reported almost 104 billion dollars in revenue and employ almost 400,000 employees.
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IBM. GM does not manufacture computers. The ECU's in their vehicles are manufactured by another company.
The IBM 4300 series were computers that were manufactured by the American firm IBM between 1979 and 1992. The 4381 was the last of these computers to be produced, from 1983 onwards.
DFT supports testing of disk drives that have been manufactured by OEM manufactures (i.e. not Hitachi or IBM) in addition to Hitachi/IBM. However the depth of testing that is carried out on the non-IBM/Hitachi drives will be less than that performed on the Hitachi/IBM drives. Sector Repair, Disk Erasure and Erase Master Boot Sector functions are not supported on non-Hitachi/IBM drives.
The Thinkpad R40 is a discontinued notebook computer manufactured and distributed by the IBM computer company. They are now only available through second-hand outlets such as eBay.
I am sitting here looking at an IBM Thinkpad type 1161 and it says it was manufactured in the year 2000, it also says that it was made for windows 98SE or 2000 pro.
Technically, the only computers that can be called "IBM Computers" are the ones that have been manufactured and/or sold by IBM. However, the "IBM Compatible Computers" are those that have been built in accordance with the IBM Standard. IBM created the original PC then turned it over to the "open architecture" community to be built by anyone who wants to follow those standards. IBM Compatible computers are the "PC" including the Laptop PC. Pretty much just about anything that's not "Apple".
The Xbox 360 uses a custom triple-core PowerPC processor, manufactured by IBM. It is codenamed "Xenon."
A ThinkPad is one of the many brands of portable laptops currently on the market. The ThinkPad was manufactured by IBM in 2005. ThinkPads were bought by the company Levano later.
There are multiple versions of DOS that have been available. * MS-DOS was manufactured by Microsoft. * PC-DOS was manufactured by IBM. * DR-DOS was manufactured by Digital Research Inc. There are other versions of DOS available, but the three listed were the most widely distributed.
Servers capable of running a variant of Unix are manufactured by many companies, including Sun Microsystems, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, and Apple.