IBM (International Business Machines Corporation) 28 Aug. 2010, 2 nd Presentation By Chandu Mevada

The 397-acre site near Route 52, located two miles northwest of the city of Rochester, was purchased by IBM in 1956 for its new Rochester manufacturing facility.

Thomas J. Watson Thomas J. Watson, Sr. was the first president of IBM. Watson developed the principles that guided IBM from a small firm to a successful international company.

Charles J. Lawson Charles J. Lawson, Jr. was named general manager of IBM Rochester on March 26, Lawson, who was assistant general manager of IBM’s Poughkeepsie, New York, site, came to Rochester to prepare for the establishment of a leased temporary facility and to oversee the myriad of activities associated with building the permanent manufacturing facility.

P RESIDENT OF IBM C OMPANY Thomas J. Watson, President Walt Ling IBM Vice President

C ORPORATE OFFICE IBM has been well known through most of its recent history as the world's largest computer company and systems integrator.

C ORPORATE OFFICE With almost 400,000 employees worldwide, IBM is second largest (by market capitalization) and the second most profitable information technology and services employer in the world according to the Forbes 2000 list with sales of greater than 100 billion US dollars.

C ORPORATE OFFICE IBM holds more patents than any other U.S. based technology company and has eight research laboratories worldwide. The company has scientists, engineers, consultants, and sales professionals in over 200 countries

C ORPORATE OFFICE IBM employees have earned five Nobel Prizes, four Turing Awards, nine National Medals of Technology, and five National Medals of Science. As a chip maker, IBM has been among the Worldwide Top 20 Semiconductor Sales Leaders in past years.

P RODUCTS Systems and Servers AMD processor-based servers Blade servers Cluster servers Intel processor-based servers Linux servers Mainframe servers Power Systems POWER processor-based servers System i (iSeries) UNIX servers x86 servers for Windows and Linux

P RODUCTS Storage Disk systems Hard drives/micro drives Network attached storage Storage area networks Storage software Tape systems Storage A-Z

The IBM 1402 Card Reader-Punch was designed in 1959 as the input unit for the IBM 1401 data processing system. The 1402 was a combination punch and reader with an input capacity of 800 cards per minute and an output of 250 cards per minute. IBM Rochester had responsibility for manufacturing the 1402.

IBM introduced its IBM System/3 computer (IBM 5410) on 30 July, 1969, to meet the computing needs of small businesses. It was the first system totally developed by the company’s laboratory in Rochester, Minnesota, and the most significant IBM product announcement since the IBM System/360 in It featured a smaller punch card which could encode up to 96 characters per card. The System/3 used IBM’s new monolithic integrated circuits.

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