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A 10 page paper providing a brief history of computers, beginning in 1944 when IBM's first mainframe was born of collaboration with Harvard University. That machine was fully electromechanical and though capable of computations, can be considered as less powerful than any pocket calculator today. The paper discusses the early portable computers and the first commercially successful personal computers, ending in a discussion of distributed systems including the debate surrounding fat clients vs thin clients, and the still-viable concept of the network computer designed to be for Internet use rather than providing all the capabilities of the PC. Bibliography lists 18 sources.
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File: CC6_KScomEvo.doc
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CEO Lou Gerstner announced at that years Las Vegas COMDEX trade show that IBM would be taking a new direction. Two years after IBMs record net loss of $8
billion, the company cured its propensity to arrogance and began listening to customers, rather than dictating to them. Gerstner told his audience of more than 7,000 industry professionals that
the company would shift nearly all its energy to network-centric computing, saying that IBM would be "betting much of our future on it ... the implications of network-centric computing go
on and on. It will transform every business, organization and institution in the world. It will create winners and losers. It will change the way we do business, the way
we teach our children, communicate and interact as individuals" (IBM, 1999; p. events2). IBM has been an integral player in much of the
evolution of the computer industry, normally leading the way in innovation and advances. Gerstners announcement marked one of the few times in IBMs history (the PC was one) that
the company was bowing to, rather than instituting, a new direction in the industry. Certainly IBM has not been the only vendor supplying computer equipment to business, but it
has been the most long-standing and still carries one of the worlds most recognizable names. Early History of the Industry
The first true mainframe computer was an IBM product developed in conjunction with Harvard University in 1944. The Mark I was the first such
machine capable of executing long computations automatically, using electromechanical relays to solve addition operations in under one second. The Mark I measured over 50 feet long and eight feet
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