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IBM's First 100 Years: A Heavily Illustrated Timeline (2011)

21 points by beshrkayali 11y ago

thangalin 11y ago
An important image is missing from the list: http://i.imgur.com/GCBnz3Z.jpg http://i.imgur.com/GCBnz3Z.jpg "IBM Germany, known in those days as Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen Gesellschaft, or Dehomag, did not simply sell the Reich machines and then walk away. IBM's subsidiary, with the knowledge of its New York headquarters, enthusiastically custom-designed the complex devices and specialized applications as an official corporate undertaking. Dehomag's top management was comprised of openly rabid Nazis who were arrested after the war for their Party affiliation. IBM NY always understood-from the outset in 1933-that it was courting and doing business with the upper echelon of the Nazi Party. The company leveraged its Nazi Party connections to continuously enhance its business relationship with Hitler's Reich, in Germany and throughout Nazi-dominated Europe." https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/IBM.html https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/IBM.h... http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/mar/29/humanities.highereducation http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/mar/29/humanities.high... "I.B.M., Black reports, knowingly provided the Third Reich with the technology to identify German Jews in the period 1933-1939. After World War II broke out in Europe, Hitler's plan to exterminate the Jews became a 'mission the company pursued with chilling success.' Drawing on documents from archives in the United States and across Europe, Black tells the astonishing story of a corporation and a corporate leader, Thomas J. Watson, eagerly conniving with the Nazis as they carried out their murderous program." https://www.nytimes.com/books/01/03/18/reviews/010318.18schoent.html https://www.nytimes.com/books/01/03/18/reviews/010318.18scho...
- throwawayaway 11y ago
  brief overview here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehomag https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehomag you first picture is kinda similar to this: http://www.fail2fail.com/uploads/misc/gatwicklondon.jpg http://www.fail2fail.com/uploads/misc/gatwicklondon.jpg
- klagermkii 11y ago
  I was looking for a reference to this in the article since it was happy enough to mention IBMs more "positive" war involvement. Article reads like something you'd find on its own corporate history page rather than anything independent.
- MichaelMoser123 11y ago
  Also see this summary of the book http://philip.greenspun.com/writing/reading.html#ibmholocaust http://philip.greenspun.com/writing/reading.html#ibmholocaus...
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agumonkey 11y ago
History drift: Between Jacquard Looms and Hollerith-like machines was the homeoscope: http://history-computer.com/ModernComputer/thinkers/Korsakov.html http://history-computer.com/ModernComputer/thinkers/Korsakov...
nfriedly 11y ago
This is a pretty cool video about highlights in IBM's history that has less overlap than you'd expect with the parent article: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39jtNUGgmd4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39jtNUGgmd4
ZanyProgrammer 11y ago
So basically, considering that article is 4 years old, they really haven't done a lot in almost 30 years worth reporting on (and opinion on Watson, when its brought up here, tends to be mixed). Yay, they sold off a highly regarded laptop line that's turned into junk!
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21 points by beshrkayali 11y ago

An important image is missing from the list: http://i.imgur.com/GCBnz3Z.jpg http://i.imgur.com/GCBnz3Z.jpg "IBM Germany, known in those days as Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen Gesellschaft, or Dehomag, did not simply sell the Reich machines and then walk away. IBM's subsidiary, with the knowledge of its New York headquarters, enthusiastically custom-designed the complex devices and specialized applications as an official corporate undertaking. Dehomag's top management was comprised of openly rabid Nazis who were arrested after the war for their Party affiliation. IBM NY always understood-from the outset in 1933-that it was courting and doing business with the upper echelon of the Nazi Party. The company leveraged its Nazi Party connections to continuously enhance its business relationship with Hitler's Reich, in Germany and throughout Nazi-dominated Europe." https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/IBM.html https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/IBM.h... http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/mar/29/humanities.highereducation http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/mar/29/humanities.high... "I.B.M., Black reports, knowingly provided the Third Reich with the technology to identify German Jews in the period 1933-1939. After World War II broke out in Europe, Hitler's plan to exterminate the Jews became a 'mission the company pursued with chilling success.' Drawing on documents from archives in the United States and across Europe, Black tells the astonishing story of a corporation and a corporate leader, Thomas J. Watson, eagerly conniving with the Nazis as they carried out their murderous program." https://www.nytimes.com/books/01/03/18/reviews/010318.18schoent.html https://www.nytimes.com/books/01/03/18/reviews/010318.18scho...

throwawayaway 11y ago
brief overview here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehomag https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehomag you first picture is kinda similar to this: http://www.fail2fail.com/uploads/misc/gatwicklondon.jpg http://www.fail2fail.com/uploads/misc/gatwicklondon.jpg
klagermkii 11y ago
I was looking for a reference to this in the article since it was happy enough to mention IBMs more "positive" war involvement. Article reads like something you'd find on its own corporate history page rather than anything independent.
MichaelMoser123 11y ago
Also see this summary of the book http://philip.greenspun.com/writing/reading.html#ibmholocaust http://philip.greenspun.com/writing/reading.html#ibmholocaus...

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agumonkey 11y ago

History drift: Between Jacquard Looms and Hollerith-like machines was the homeoscope: http://history-computer.com/ModernComputer/thinkers/Korsakov.html http://history-computer.com/ModernComputer/thinkers/Korsakov...

nfriedly 11y ago

This is a pretty cool video about highlights in IBM's history that has less overlap than you'd expect with the parent article: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39jtNUGgmd4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39jtNUGgmd4

ZanyProgrammer 11y ago

So basically, considering that article is 4 years old, they really haven't done a lot in almost 30 years worth reporting on (and opinion on Watson, when its brought up here, tends to be mixed). Yay, they sold off a highly regarded laptop line that's turned into junk!

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