Ibm Facts

In the 1980s, an IBM computer wasn't considered 100 percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft Flight Simulator.

In 1956, the IBM 350 hard disk drive had 3.75 MB of storage, weighed over 2000 lbs, had to be moved around with forklifts, and was delivered via large cargo airplanes.

IBM's Watson computer has 90 processors, 2,880 cores, 11,200 threads, 16 terabytes of RAM, and 4TB worth of data on its hard drive.

A secretary in Dallas kept making typing errors, so she started painting over them with white tempera paint. She offered the idea to IBM - they said no. She built Liquid Paper into a company doing $38 million a year. Gillette bought it for $47.5 million. Her son was in The Monkees.

In March 1913, a flood put downtown Dayton, Ohio under 20 feet of water. National Cash Register's president, John H. Patterson, turned his cash register factory into a boatyard. Workers built nearly 300 boats and pulled thousands of people off rooftops. The factory became the city's hospital and shelter. Then Patterson led the campaign for the flood-control dams that still protect Dayton today.