Today in 1924, the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) changed its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
“IBM” was first used for CTR’s subsidiaries in Canada and South America, but after “several years of persuading a slow-moving board of directors,” Thomas and Marva Belden note in The Lengthening Shadow, Thomas J. Watson S…
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