As of the 2020's, a slumbering giant.
But the pre-Internet impact of IBM was insane! Including notably:
- some of the most important business computers of the pre-personal computer era
- SQL
- IBM Generalized Markup Language, which is a predecessor to XML and HTML
This is a family of computers. It was a big success. It appears that this was a big unification project of previous architectures. And it also gave software portability guarantees with future systems, since writing software was starting to become as expensive as the hardware itself.
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This was the first major commercial computer hit. Stlil vacuum tube-based.
Learning how to program on the IBM 650 Donald Knuth interview by Web of Stories (2006)
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