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Re:IBM is splitting itself into two public companies by rusk on Thursday October 08, 2020 @03:10PM (#24722624)
At 45 I guess they were expanding into Europe.
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Re:IBM is splitting itself into two public companies by GnarfGnarf on Thursday October 08, 2020 @03:42PM (#24723011)
Yep, selling Hollerith card equipment to Germany in the 30's and 40's.
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Re:IBM is splitting itself into two public companies by mulmen on Thursday October 08, 2020 @03:58PM (#24723196)
That math doesn’t work out. IBM was formed in 1911. 45 years old would be 1956.

Also doing business in Europe in the 1930s doesn’t mean that’s when they expanded. That business could have been decades old by then.

Some quick reading of the history of IBM and subsidiaries suggests they were doing business in Europe by the 1920s.

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