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What was the first computer to win a chess match against a world champion (under regular time constraints)?
IBM's Deep Blue system achieved its first victory over a world chess champion on February 10, 1996, when it won the first game of a six-game match against Garry Kasparov. Despite this initial loss ...
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What was the first computer to be marketed as a "laptop"?
Priced at $4,000, the first ever "laptop" weighed 9 pounds ... the Gavilan SC was more compact than rival IBM PC-compatible portable computers such as the 28 pounder (13 kg) Compaq Portable.
Numbers, please! 3.75 megabytes of memory - The world's first hard disk
The IBM 350, the world's first hard disk, was released in 1956. As the RAMAC computer's memory, it had space for 3.75 ...
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Bits and bytes: the story of Tulsa's IBM Building that became the Littlefield Building
International Business Machines Corp. opened its first Tulsa office during the late 1920s. Over the following decades the ...
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IBM: Power10 CPU’s ‘Memory Inception’ Is Industry’s ‘Holy Grail’
“What if I want one computer to talk to a petabyte of memory ... other within the same virtual machine. The Power10 is IBM’s first commercialized processor made using Samsung’s 7nm ...
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John Kelly, ‘Father’ Of Watson Computer, Retires From IBM
Once called the ‘father’ of IBM’s Watson computer, Kelly has ‘played numerous ... academia and government. Kelly, who first joined IBM in 1980, is credited with keeping IBM as the leader ...