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2005 -
Lenovo
completes the acquisition of IBM's Personal Computing
Division.
December 08, 2004 - IBM sells
its computing
division to Lenovo Group for $1.75 billion.
December 06, 2002 - Hitachi
announces it has bought IBM's hard disk drive business and
establishes Hitachi Global Storage Technologies. Hitachi will
become the wholly owned subsidiary by year-end 2005.
August 04, 2002 - IBM acquires Pricewaterhouse Coopers
Consulting.
August 14, 2001 - IBM stops selling
AMD-based
PCs in North America.
January 1, 1999 - All IBM antivirus technical support
problems are now addressed through Symantec.
November 10, 1999 - IBM today announced the industry's largest
resolution, production-level LCD monitor panel available. The new ITQX20 high-definition
thin film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panel is the industry's first
commercially-available 20.8 inch TFT display that combines the highest resolution
available in a production-level monitor panel with a large image size and superb image
quality. Each of the display's nine million transistors acts as an individual switch for
three million picture elements, or pixels, resulting in QXGA (2048 x 1536) resolution at
123 pixels per inch.
1986 - The
AT
or 101 key keyboard is introduced by IBM.
1984
- IBM's
AT computer is introduced.
1984
- IBM introduces its portable computer, the IBM
Portable weighing in at 30 pounds.
1981
- IBM
joins the computer race by introducing IBM PC, which runs the new
MS-DOS
operating system.
1980
- IBM
hires Microsoft to develop versions of
BASIC,
FORTRAN,
COBOL, and
Pascal for the PC being developed by IBM.
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