October 21, 2021

21: The International Business Machines Corporation

45 minutes

This season on Flashback, Quinn and Stephen are covering the rise — and fall — of IBM's PC business, but first: some background on the enormous company that Apple and so many others lived in the shadow of back in the 80s.

This episode of Flashback is sponsored by:

Clean My Mac X: Your Mac. As good as new. Get 5% off today.

Links and Show Notes: Young Steve Jobs Gives IBM the Finger IBM - Archives - History of IBM - United States International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) | Selling the Computer Revolution | Computer History Museum History of IBM: Timeline and Facts - TheStreet The History of IBM: the Personal Computer to Watson - YouTube IBM and World War II - Wikipedia IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation - Amazon IBM System/360 - Wikipedia Computer History: IBM System/360 Mainframe 1964 Original Announcement, Transistors, Data Processing - YouTube IBM Archives: System/360 Announcement Don Says: "I Don't Think About You At All" - YouTube