Computing Tabulating Recording (CTR) Corporation.
June 16, 1911
International Business Machines
IBM (International Business Machines)In 1914 Thomas J Watson joinedComputing-Tabulating-Recording Co., which made weighing scales, timeclocks, and also "tabulators" which sorted information using punched cards. Tabulators were forerunners of the earliest mainframe computers. The company was renamed International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) in 1924.
IBM = International Business Machines
The company name was changed to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)in 1924 and is traded on the NYSE. Previously, the company was listed on the US stock market, but under a different name.
He changed it from "Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company" to International Business Machines Corporation.In 1914 Thomas J Watson joinedComputing-Tabulating-Recording Co., which made weighing scales, timeclocks, and also "tabulators" which sorted information using punched cards. Tabulators were forerunners of the earliest mainframe computers. The company was renamed International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) in 1924.
"Xerox" is a short form of the name of the company, "Xerox Corporation," and is also part of the company's trademark. The five letters alone are not an acronym and do not "stand for" something in the way that IBM used to stand for "International Business Machines."
IBM was formed in 1911 as a merger of several existing companies that manufactured scales, time recording equipment and tabulating machines which read punch cards. Originally called Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (C-T-R), they changed their name to International Business Machines Corporation in 1924.
IBM, which used to be called Computing, Tabulating, Recording Corporation went public in 1916. It officially changed its name eight years later to International Business Machines (IBM). By the end of the 1920's, IBM had quadrupled its original share price.
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In 1914, Thomas Watson became president of the company that, in 1924, became International Business Machines Corporation, or IBM. Watson was responsible for the name change. The ironic thing is that one of Watson's most famous quotes is: I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. (1943)
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