The IBM System/360, introduced in 1964, ushered in a new era of compatibility in which computers were no longer thought of as collections of individual components, but rather as platforms
“good design is good business” and created IBM’s firstDesign Program— hired noted graphic designer Paul Rand to create a logo that would herald a new era of IBM while also communicating continuity. Replacing the former Beton Bold typography with City Medium, the letters “IBM” took on a...
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How IBM and NASA's AI foundation model can help track and adapt to climate change "NASA is committed to the full, free and open sharing of over 100 PB of scientific data and information. This is the first-time foundation models have been applied to the immense archive of ...
In 1956, IBM's 305 Random Access Memory Accounting System (RAMAC) was the first with a hard drive. Piece by piece, the modern electronic computer was starting to come together. In 1968, Douglas Engelbart demonstrated a prototype of the modern computer, which included a mouse and graphical use...
IBM Model F keyboards are known today for having very strange-looking layouts that are difficult to get used to. For example, theIBM XT keyboard, one of the first Model F’s to come out. The IBM PC AT keyboard attempted to improve upon those layout shortfalls, but still required tedious...
Introducing the world's first 2 nm node chip IBM Research’s second-generation nanosheet technology has paved a path to the 2 nm node, produced on a 300 mm wafer. Pictured: A rendering of the lowest layers of the 2nm test chip, showing the rows of our nanosheet breakthrough. Subscribe ...
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The main disadvantage of an incremental backup is that it usually cannot be used by itself to restore a volume or server; it must depend on the data from a full backup being restored first. On a system such as a database server, where data files are interrelated and depend on each ...
Ok, so the first laptops that IBM rolled off in their new sensational livery, were less than sensational, and they didn’t actually have the striking red pointing nub. Despite their striking colour, these were actually called “me too” products by the press, once again trailing behind the ...