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International Business Machines turned 100 on Thursday, 15 June, 2011. IBM dates to June 16, 1911, when three companies that made scales, punch-clocks for work and other machines merged to form the Computing Tabulating Recording Co. In this undated photo,

The new business with a plant in Endicott, N.Y., made scales, time clocks, cheese slicers and, significantly for its future, machines that read data stored on punch cards.

In this undated photo provided by International Business Machines magnetic stripe technology is used in 1971, at a shoe store.

In this undated photo provided by International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) a punch card machine is being assembled. By the 1930s, IBM's cards were keeping track of 26 million Americans for the newly launched Social Security program.

In this undated photo provided by International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) the Selectric color typewriter, circa 1960's, is shown.

In this undated photo provided by International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) Thomas J. Watson, Jr. is shown with the System/360 mainframe, in 1964.

In this May 31, 2011 photo, Donovan McCarty, a volunteer at the Center for Technology & Innovation, tests output voltage on power supplies that run a main frame computer from the 1960's at the Center for Technology & Innovation in Binghamton, NY.

In this undated photo provided by International Business Machines Inc. (IBM), the IBM team that created Deep Blue is shown in 1997.

In the 1960s, IBM developed the first bar code, paving the way for automated supermarket checkouts. In this undated photo provided by International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) the bar code, which was developed in the 1960's, is shown.

In this July 12, 2002, file photo, Currie Munce, IBM's director of hard disk drive technology, holds up the 1956

In this undated photo provided by International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) the Random Access Method of Accounting and Control (RAMAC) IBM RAM 305 from the 1950's, is shown.

In an infamous blunder, IBM introduced its influential personal computer in 1981, but it passed on buying the rights to the software that ran it - made by a startup called Microsoft.

In this May 31, 2011 photo, Alan Jones, a retired Senior Engineer at IBM, attempts to work a Blood Cell Processor, circa 1972, that Jones invented, at the Center for Technology & Innovation in Binghamton, N.Y.

In this file photo taken Jan. 29, 2002, Louis V. Gerstner, former chief executive officer, poses outside the IBM headquarters in Armonk, N.Y.

In this Feb 8, 2006, file photo, the new Cell Broadband Engine processor is shown during a presentation at the IBM offices, in New York. IBM had slipped with the rise of cheap microprocessors and rapid changes in the industry.

Chairman of the Board, President and CEO of IBM, Samuel J. Palmisano, second from right, is applauded as he rings the New York Stock Exchange opening bell, on Thursday, June 16, 2011 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of IBM.

Although the current CEO Samuel J. Palmisano is turning 60 this year, the typical age an IBM CEO retires, he has tried to tamp down speculation that he's ready to step aside, even as he's put a spotlight on his possible heirs.

International Business Machines turned 100 on Thursday, 15 June, 2011. IBM dates to June 16, 1911, when three companies that made scales, punch-clocks for work and other machines merged to form the Computing Tabulating Recording Co. In this undated photo,

International Business Machines turned 100 on Thursday, 15 June, 2011. IBM dates to June 16, 1911, when three companies that made scales, punch-clocks for work and other machines merged to form the Computing Tabulating Recording Co. In this undated photo, a dog sits on an International Portable Scale.

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