Chapter 15 IBM memorabilia

1924 Old Watson controlled the original watch making machine company and changed its name to IBM. Entered the Japanese market in 1925, after the watch machine company had already begun to gradually enter the European market. 1933 The IBM Engineering Laboratory is established. 1936 Received a large order from the US government during Roosevelt's New Deal. 1943 IBM developed the vacuum tube amplifier. 1940 Entered the Asian market in the 1940s. 1945 Watson Laboratories established. In 1952, Watson Jr. became the president of IBM and started a 20-year computer era of rapid development.

1953 Developed a calculator using a magnetic drum. 1964 IBM360 mainframe computer came out. 1969 Started research on language recognition, and the Department of Justice began an antitrust investigation of IBM. 1971 Watson Jr. retires. 1973 Dr. Leo Esaki won the first Nobel Prize for IBM for his research on electron tunneling. 1981 IBM-PC was born. Gerstner took over IBM in 1993, creating a 10-year golden age for IBM. 1997 Computer Deep Blue defeats world chess champion Garry Kasparov. In 2005, IBM sold its PC division to Lenovo and withdrew from the PC market.