The International Business Machines Corporation

Flashback

This season on Flashback, Quinn and Stephen are covering the rise — and fall — of IBM's PC business, but first: some background on the enormous company that Apple and so many others lived in the shadow of back in the 80s.

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Links and Show Notes:

Young Steve Jobs Gives IBM the Finger

IBM - Archives - History of IBM - United States

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) | Selling the Computer Revolution | Computer History Museum

History of IBM: Timeline and Facts - TheStreet

The History of IBM: the Personal Computer to Watson - YouTube

IBM and World War II - Wikipedia

IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation - Amazon

IBM System/360 - Wikipedia

Computer History: IBM System/360 Mainframe 1964 Original Announcement, Transistors, Data Processing - YouTube

IBM Archives: System/360 Announcement

Don Says: "I Don't Think About You At All" - YouTube

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