Check out this video that was created to highlight 100 of the achievements IBM has created in the past 100 years.
Some highlights:
- 6:10 - 1962 - IBM creates the Sabre reservation system for American Airlines
- 6:45 - 1966 - IBM invents Dynamic RAM (the memory for computers)
- 7:00 - 1969 - IBM goes to space
- 7:50 - 1973 - IBM invents the UPC
- 8:02 - 1975 - IBM creates the first portable computer created, "kinda"
- 8:35 - 1981 - IBM invents the PC expecting to sell 240,000. 2 million are sold
- 9:05 - 1986 & 1987- IBMers win the Nobel prize
- 10:00 - 1997 - Deep Blue defeats the Chess World Champion (and in 2011, IBM's Watson takes on Jeopardy! champions!)