IBM (International Business Machines), the company that brought us the PC, celebrates its 100th birthday on June 17.
The firm dominated computing technology for many years, but blundered in 1981 when it introduced its personal computer but didn't want to buy the rights to the software that ran it, which was made by an upstart company - Microsoft!
A mistake with hindsight, yes, but today, IBM still holds more patents than any other US-based tech company, is bigger than Google and Apple and employs more than 425,000 people in over 200 countries.
EXCELLENT STORY ON IBM HISTORY: MAIL
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