IBM - Switching Industries

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IBM - Switching Industries

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For decades, IBM has been one of the largest companies in the world. They go back over 100 years and have always been able to keep up with the times by switching their main focus. This video talks about those switches.
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Pan Am: • The Decline of Pan Am....
ESPN: • The Decline of ESPN......
Gibson: • The Decline of Gibson....
iHeartMedia: • The Decline of iHeartM...
Bon-Ton: • The Decline of Bon-Ton...
Kodak: • The Decline of Kodak.....
General Electric: • The Decline of General...
Woolworth: • The Decline of Woolwor...
Dell: • The Decline of Dell......
Sears: • The Decline of Sears.....
Payless: • The Decline of Payless...
Hostess: • The Decline of Hostess...
Redbox: • The Decline of Redbox....
Nokia: • The Decline of Nokia.....
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@endcensorship874 4 жыл бұрын

I will give IBM this: They were a heck of lot more far sighted than Xerox and Kodak.

@Trayxxxx 4 жыл бұрын

Agreed

@mxbunnycatter 4 жыл бұрын

They mostly learned from mistakes.. They had a big financial write-off on the pcjr, that failed miserably because of their own incompetent handling (Adrian black and tech tangents (and lgr?) have shown the issues at hand quite in depth) And they made similar efforts trying to "recapture" the market with the PS/2 in 1987 (which is where the green/purple connector originates from) but by then, they already had lost the market to their competitors, so they sort of suffered a similar fate as Kodak there..

@Clay3613 4 жыл бұрын

Xerox still makes printers and has nationwide stores dedicated to selling and servicing them.

@BackTheNerd 4 жыл бұрын

@@loralighte1095 IBM was one of the first corporations to ship Windows on their systems.

@BackTheNerd 4 жыл бұрын

@@mxbunnycatter Yeah, IBM would most likely still have a huge position in the market today if it weren't for clones taking over -(thanks Compaq)- and their own less successful attempts at hardware later on.

@mikecoker4007 4 жыл бұрын

Growing up in the late 80's and early 90's, pretty much all non-Apple PC's were referred to as "IBM Compatibles." I'd call that pretty dominant.

@JamesR624 4 жыл бұрын

That's even kinda true to this day, All Linux machines, Windows Machines, Chromebooks, and anything that isn't a Mac is a "PC". The term "Personal Computer" for non-Apple machines I think started around that IBM era.

@jimmyhirr5773 4 жыл бұрын

@@JamesR624 Around 2005, Apple transitioned Mac hardware to the PC standard. Ironically, Apple now sells more IBM PC compatibles than IBM.

@jannadrielcervo7753 4 жыл бұрын

@@jimmyhirr5773 Soon they will return to using RISC based CPUs in the future. They will be back to becoming a true Mac again. But still the compatibility that IBM did really made the computer industry advance ahead.

@simonsays6307 3 жыл бұрын

That's not dominant, that's stupid. Instead of being the only player, they became one of a hundred. If only the IBM brass had the common sense to dictate terms with then unknown Microsoft and Bill Gates, IBM would be the most valuable company today.

@h.mandelene3279 2 жыл бұрын

@@simonsays6307 "IBM would be the most valuable company today." I disagree. I mean Motorola invented, was king of the cell market. Kodak was #1 in digital camera sales for a few years, GM was the largest company in the world. Just because they developed it and was huge in the computer field doesn't mean the PC would be where it is today if it was totally under the control of IBM. I mean IBM hung on to Token Ring network and only got it up to 100Mb/s. Ethernet-with the open market is doing 10Gb/s and is so cheap it is in ever PC sold.

@tabithadeskins1880 4 жыл бұрын

Video suggestion: Mattel. There are a lot of options on talking about this. You could make it one of your scandal video's even. Also a fantastic story type video, as the founder went through a lot of changes throughout her life. It's just a little thought, and I think you might like looking into the story.

@TC-oi5pk 4 жыл бұрын

Tabitha Deskins totally agree! I'd love to watch this

@smuckerst8355 4 жыл бұрын

I want a switching industries on Peugeot, I've been asking for 2 years

@sirBrouwer 4 жыл бұрын

@@smuckerst8355 what do you want to know about a pepper mill company?

@elliottsantiagocasanova9559 4 жыл бұрын

Plz do Kirkland Signature vs Great Value

@emmettturner9452 4 жыл бұрын

Their relationship and missed opportunities with Nintendo could be interesting too. I mean, there were literally two incompatible Nintendo systems being sold in the same region and the same games had to be released as "Mattel Version" and "NES Version" as a result. It really held Nintendo back in those regions until the '90s.

@TiberianFiend 4 жыл бұрын

IBM didn't lose the microcomputer market because they entered it late. They lost it because: A. They built the PC from generic parts, which let anyone build clones; and B. They let Microsoft sell MS-DOS to all of their competitors so they were all software compatible. Look into the history of Compaq and it'll tell you most of what you need to know about that story.

@ka3bhy 4 жыл бұрын

That is why ALL intel computers are IBM compatible.

@bradenf 4 жыл бұрын

Micro channel architecture and Microsoft treachery. This was years before I hired on. I made a great living off of OS/2 for a decade or so.

@bradenf 4 жыл бұрын

It was only after I started working for them that I started using ThinkPads - they were free. Some time later I moved to ASUS for my personal use cuz they were so much better at Fallout 3 and Second Life!

@mechajay3358 4 жыл бұрын

Given how they got the attention of the Antitrust laws, I assume they didn't want to go through it again with the PC's.

@bradenf 4 жыл бұрын

@@mechajay3358 Ageed! I saw that coming!

@edgelord8337 4 жыл бұрын

*Times change and we need to change with it* That's how ibm stayed relevant and continued making money

@solonsaturngaming3727 4 жыл бұрын

edge lord your everywhere holy shit

@subifyouhatetiktokandreddit234 4 жыл бұрын

Why do your comments always get likes?

@solonsaturngaming3727 4 жыл бұрын

Abraham Nettey cause he’s a sheep that follows everything lol

@asvpab 4 жыл бұрын

@@solonsaturngaming3727 how do y'all have the same profile picture

@Sabrintwitt3r 4 жыл бұрын

*until mid-80s

@zzco 4 жыл бұрын

IBM buying Redhat isn't really news in the Linux world. They've been interested in them since the turn of the century when they started making those Linux commercials with that kid in them.

@Heat3YT2 4 жыл бұрын

I worked for them. They reduced their American workforce by about 50,000 while I was there. They stopped reporting how much they were cutting. Lots of cuts every year, eventually including me. Yet they remain very bloated when it comes to middle management. Oh well.

@bradenf 4 жыл бұрын

You and I might know each other! They were cruel (still are?) cruel to over-60s. I actually like Lee (all most stepped on his shoe at at 57 Mad once!) Each CEO since has dragged the company deeper à

@status101-danielho6 4 жыл бұрын

I also worked for them during the services era, when they were shoving Lotus Notes down everyone's throat. The strategy in my division was to meet their service level agreement to extend a corporate support contract another 5 years, and once the ink dried, to move all the services to Bangalore or Brno to maximize profits and have the SLA crash. IBM didn't care, they got the money, screw the customer, screw the workers. lol

@kiwiwifi 4 жыл бұрын

Me too. Made redundant after 911 in NZ

@LickMyMusketBallsYankee 4 жыл бұрын

@@kiwiwifi Who knew that the American emergency line would have such a big impact on New Zealand?

@JustinTime5222 4 жыл бұрын

My IBM friend always said "Too many chiefs, too many Indians"

@honkhonk8009 4 жыл бұрын

8:35 IBM came in at the perfect time actually. What happened was that their PCs became so popular that various other manufacturers would make IBM compatible clones. So what happened was IBM helped standardize computers by a shit ton. IBM still produced much better computers than their competitors but at their competitors made cheaper versions. Were still all using IBM computers since there are aspects in modern computers carried on by IBM

@honolulublues5548 4 жыл бұрын

IBM did make the fatal mistake of trying to go with proprietary boards in I believe in their System 2. The problem was, that software people already owned purchased by businesses would not work on it. So, clone makers got together to actually standardize the PC. I believe that was EISA. And they had one major industry leader in the group to push the new standard - Microsoft. There were more computers with the standard so more software developers stuck with the standard. IBM did realize they failed in this and switched back, but they were losing market share and that is why they sold the business to Lenovo.

@johnnapier5127 4 жыл бұрын

It also helped that IBM made their BIOS listings and schematics publicly available in their User Manuals.

@kaitlyn__L 4 жыл бұрын

@@honolulublues5548 proprietary boards, proprietary disk interfaces, proprietary expansion slots... proprietary memory I think but am not as sure about? Yeah very much 180, IBM tried to justify it by saying it's 32-bit, it's the future, blah blah blah, but people didn't like not being able to use their old cards, and many customers complained after "never getting fired for buying IBM" before, as the cost this time involved many peripherals as well. Compaq had enough clout at that point to get unity among the clone-markers and create open standards that were backwards compatible as well as being roughly equivalent to IBM's new standards. Their cheap price, interoperability and back-compat meant a lot of businesses switched away from IBM, and home users basically never saw the new proprietary standards at all. IBM quickly switched later PS/2 models to the open standards as well. About the only new port that stuck around was mini-DIN for keyboard ("PS/2 port"), which was probably due to being electrically the same as the older larger keyboard connector. It's rare, but you can still buy a brand new motherboard with PS/2 keyboard ports, usually the highest-end models.

@giguerrelansh2589 4 жыл бұрын

man you're channel is underrated, after 8 hrs of work, this is one of best documentary I watch . Keep going

@johnnylightning1967 4 жыл бұрын

My dad worked at IBM for 40 years, was like a family to him, Christmas parties in Manhattan, summer family parties in sands point L.I. Great times. He retired in 1992. Big Blue

@brianmatyas4114 4 жыл бұрын

One thing you missed about IBM. They designed the technology used in instantaneous translation, first used in the Nuremberg Trials in 1945 and 46. Today, it's something we take for granted.

@RandoView 4 жыл бұрын

"They're known for computers." *Shows a PCjr, a total market failure*

@mateuszzimon8216 4 жыл бұрын

But u forget about Hollerith machines in GERMANY death camps, they even send ppl to service it in.

@lee4hmz 4 жыл бұрын

@@RandoView A total market failure that later became a hit for someone else, no less.

@mxbunnycatter 4 жыл бұрын

@@lee4hmz not really; the pcjr got a second life as the Tandy machine from RadioShack, but for IBM, this was a large financial write-off, as it flopped completely, likely because of their own incompetent strategy of trying to make it as incompatible as possible.. And using that infamous chiclet keyboard, instead of a model-M style kb, that became bog standard in later models of the IBM-PC

@3OBTPA 4 жыл бұрын

@@mateuszzimon8216 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

@CZsWorld 4 жыл бұрын

It's weird hope they can be so successful without result targeting consumers.

@pedropedrohan102 3 жыл бұрын

interesting a verified with no 1k likes

@itsthesola10 4 жыл бұрын

8:50 We _are_ using IBM computers right now. What killed off IBM's "home-grown" personal computers was the _clones_ . Otherwise, they laid a solid foundation for the Intel x86 personal computer which is still in use today.

@AcornScorn 4 жыл бұрын

IBM at this point mostly cares about the Enterprise level market, we still have some consumer level technologies but it's not our focus, for revenue it's all cloud right now, server hosting for large compaies and the like meanwhile R&D pisses our cash away on Watson type shit

@alecday3775 4 жыл бұрын

You can even toss the PS4 and XBOX One in as well as they also use the same X86 architecture as well as modern-day desktop and laptop computers and the PS5 and Series X are the same architecture as well. It makes developing games for all the systems easier.

@mateuszzimon8216 4 жыл бұрын

IBM owns trademark PC and Personal Computer We still use x86, we still use modular bulid PC.

@honolulublues5548 4 жыл бұрын

What killed it is when IBM tried to make proprietary hardware that the new computers would not run the current software of the time. Business owners spent a lot of money on that software and didn't want to give it up. The clone companies all got together and established EISA standards and companies started buying more clones. It didn't hurt that Bill Gates was with EISA on this issue.

@donjulioanejo 4 жыл бұрын

@@AcornScorn Watson can pay off big-time once they get it working well for their target use cases (i.e. medical diagnosis). They're certainly closer to a usable product than Google or Amazon. The latter just give you a bunch of Lego bricks you have to put together yourself.

@PeptoBismarck244 4 жыл бұрын

Hold up, IBM basically invented the scantron.

@akrites 4 жыл бұрын

Pepto Bismarck the kids today have no idea what you are talking about.

@mikecally5720 4 жыл бұрын

Years before that, a french man invented the first punch card. Joseph Marie Jacquard.

@oshikiri999 4 жыл бұрын

Haha!

@FutureShadow117 4 жыл бұрын

akrites if they’re at least high school age they will know. They need to use them for the ACT/SAT. If they’re college age they definitely know, as they will use them for most of their tests.

@jasonhull3069 4 жыл бұрын

@@FutureShadow117 colleges test online boomer

@askhowiknow5527 4 жыл бұрын

People hissed and laughed when IBM placed an order for a bunch of Macs when they don't realize IBM made the processors used in Macs from the early 90s until 2005...

@purpl3grape 4 жыл бұрын

We want to hear beautiful lies and pay for it!

@sudoscience5084 4 жыл бұрын

PowerPC?

@askhowiknow5527 4 жыл бұрын

@@sudoscience5084 Yuss

@kevaninthe4135 4 жыл бұрын

@@sudoscience5084 Yup PowerPC. The "AIM Alliance". PowerPC really went on to make its name in game consoles like Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.

@technoking734 4 жыл бұрын

Apple and IBM Both had 50-50 ownership rights in PowerPC Which was designed by AIM ALLIANCE

@josephmoccia2369 4 жыл бұрын

As a computer person myself, I love the topics you brought up the last few weeks. I still need to write my comment about the Skype video. Great work

@ZacharyLaid 4 жыл бұрын

*As a kid I always thought IBM stood for International Ballistic Missile...*

@pietnickolas3423 4 жыл бұрын

Lol

@rainbow_vader 4 жыл бұрын

IBM, not to be confused with ICBM

@531d4 4 жыл бұрын

For when the us gets real mad at Canada

@skunksecond 4 жыл бұрын

Relatable, but I realized that when I searched IBM up (It was the early 2000s, I was born in 1992)

@xtusvincit5230 4 жыл бұрын

Inter-Continental Ballistic Missle

@universalperson 4 жыл бұрын

"open source enterprise software" Translation: Enterprise is just another way of saying businesses (or maybe even government agencies). They're not really meant for average consumers. Open-source is...well, to REALLY oversimplify things, most software companies hide their code because they don't want people copying it. Open-source software creators however publically show their code to everyone and allow people to copy it because they believe this actually creates better software in the long run. Red Hat's business model was (is?) to give their software out for free but then charging customers for maintenance, installation, and support of said software - basically you aren't paying for the software, but for IT people who presumably know what they're doing.

@honolulublues5548 4 жыл бұрын

Their Enterprise software isn't free, however is still open source. They do produce a free open source version called Fedora.

@johannnz 4 жыл бұрын

@@honolulublues5548 CentOS is even closer to Red Hat than Fedora, well basically is identical to what Red Hat is. Here is a nice sintetized explanation: danielmiessler.com/study/fedora_redhat_centos/

@smileyspeedster 4 жыл бұрын

I think the aquisition was about the Openshift engine, and not redhat per se. IBM has acknowledged that they lost the cloud battle against AWS and Azure. The future is applications moving their code from native format, thus requiring virtualization (VMWare and OS costs), over to container technology. That container technology can then run either local, on your cloud, aws cloud, anybody's cloud basically. It's just a comodity, with no big money to be made. That is where openshift comes in. Managing these now hybrid cloud solutions. Time will tell if they got it right.

@donjulioanejo 4 жыл бұрын

@@smileyspeedster I mean realistically, OpenShift is just an enterprise management layer over Kubernetes. With native firewall rules and IAM where you don't have to fuck around with plugins like Calico. You also get a pretty GUI. If you're a large enterprise running on-prem virtualization, OpenShift is the logical next step once you can containerize all the internal business apps. Certainly beats trying to teach Windows admins how to run stuff in Kubernetes. I can see the market do well.

@Pantechnicon 4 жыл бұрын

I worked for IBM's computer support field services division about 15 years ago. They are a company that has a very, very solid grasp of their business. They always know exactly what they're doing and how to plan for whatever they want to do next. They're pretty amazing, but without having to be flashy about it, which is what you get to be after over 100 years in existence. Great company.

@GEKay-xt2cq 4 жыл бұрын

The IBM Selectric typewriter keyboard had the sweetest feel and sound ever!

@tonyman1106 4 жыл бұрын

IBM Still make hardware. they make massive mainframe systems even to this day

@lajya01 4 жыл бұрын

We're using P8s at my job. They can take any loads we throw at them but IBMs licenses ain't cheap and they make cloud shifting difficult so we don't plan on keeping them after the end of support.

@larrypaul2462 4 жыл бұрын

Super computers And as of now (changes often) the top 2 fastest supercomputers in the world are IBM's, but are soon to be replaced due to government wanting to deal with a single source for hardware i.e. both CPU's as well as GPU compute cards, the compute cards IBM does not make themselfs and rely on Nvidia and/or AMD's gpu arm. Irony with the single hardware source is when Intel were manufacturing chips for IBM, IBM demanded a second source for Intels chips which resulted in AMD being the second supplier of Intel chips. Also and being a computer nerd, it's funny watching the intel/amd fans at war with things like (on the AMD side, which it normally is) AMD developed FinFit microprocessor architecture, yeah that was IBM Or, first to deploy PCIe version 4.0, Again, that was IBM. List goes on, but those are the biggest misinformation atm.

@tbolt5883 4 жыл бұрын

@@larrypaul2462 You may not realize this but at one time IBM was the largest chip maker in the world. The world didn't know it because all the chips went into IBM machines and not the marketplace.

@DemocracysFinest 4 жыл бұрын

Still rocking an IBM AS400 for our warehouse management system

@AEMoreira81 3 жыл бұрын

Since your post, IBM spun off the mainframe operation and is basically an IT solutions company.

@75762593 4 жыл бұрын

Here's an interesting note about IBM as well during WWII IBM actually manufactured M1 carbines for the US military. Always thought it was interesting to see a rifle with the IBM logo stamped on it

@ayahoo16 4 жыл бұрын

My dad worked at IBM when I was a kid and we had thousands of old punch cards all the time. We used them all the time for everything. We used them to take notes, prototypes for board games, floss your teeth, start fires. He took cases of them home when they became obsolete. It was a huge part of my childhood.

@abdullaalzayani6018 4 жыл бұрын

TIL that they owned a portion of lenovo with the sale deal.. I guess that was their way of outsourcing production while focusing on IT solutions in the US.. interesting to say the least

@mitchellblake1475 4 жыл бұрын

What blows my mind is that some of those old mainframes are still working and being used to this day. Some near-extinct coding languages are kept alive purely because these old mainframes never quit.

@mspysu79 4 жыл бұрын

Mainframes are not old, IBM makes brand new mainframes, they run 64-bit processors and can have terabytes of ram (or in IBM parlance storage) and petabytes of disc storage (IBM parlance DASD). COBOL is nowhere near extinct, it is a current language with the last ANSI standard version being from 2015. Very few organizations would have anything older than a late 90's S/390 mainframe in current use. Bank of America a couple of years ago bought 12 of IBM's biggest mainframes for their data centers, 95% of the world's credit card transactions run through a mainframe and COBOL code at some point. It is estimated that there are 45 billion lines of COBOL code in current use around the world and about 1.5 billion lines get added each year. Now COBOL is not a popular language with current college computer science courses, a lot of that has to do with the fact that COBOL really does not do "cool things" so it is not very exciting, it is also not a fun language to learn as say something like RUBY or DRUPAL would be, and lastly, IBM really stopped evangelizing it to schools, so people not connected to the sectors that still use it just decided to shift resources elsewhere.

@everyhandletaken 4 жыл бұрын

mspysu79 Drupal.. a language? Do you mean Drupal, the CMS? Or perhaps PHP?

@cronchcrunch 4 жыл бұрын

@@mspysu79 he specifically said "some of those old mainframes" and not "mainframes are old." And it is true that basically all of the biggest companies in the world use mainframes running COBOL, but it still is a very niche language when you look at the amount of available jobs and how many people actively use it when designing software compared to other languages. Although this demand has changed in the past month or two due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

@lajya01 4 жыл бұрын

@@cronchcrunch Our service developed very recently a Z/OS assembly module to extract transactions from our IDMS database. Only 1 (one) guy can maintain it. If he dies or retires, we're screwed, we'll have to shutdown dozens of system that depends on that module.

@harrisonjr98 4 жыл бұрын

I work for IBM, and I swear it took me six months after starting to entirely wrap my head around all of the different ventures the company is involved in. They’re far less of a household name than they once were, but they definitely always have the future in mind when making decisions.

@retronuggets4315 9 ай бұрын

What do you do at IBM? Their history is pretty complex so I wonder what they’re up to

@harrisonjr98 9 ай бұрын

@@retronuggets4315 hardware support for their enterprise storage and compute products, primarily. Nothing super glamorous! The corporate datacenter is definitely where they still have their biggest foothold in terms of name recognition. The newer Z frame stuff is really cool and genuinely innovative in a lot of ways but I’d wager the company will never have a big consumer-facing presence again.

@sleekoduck 4 жыл бұрын

Those loud IBM keyboards in the 1990s were wonderful. I actually had a co-worker complain to her boss that I was typing too loud.

@senpaiishere3848 4 жыл бұрын

I work at IBM currently, I work in the Fulfillment,and FAB departments for their mainframes. What I do is I put them through a lot of tests before they get shipped out to the customer. I love working at IBM its the best job I've ever had without a doubt.

@MrRickulus 4 жыл бұрын

I love how you handle your videos. Like, when you start to go on a bit of a tangent, you always apologize and assure us you will be back to the main point. It is incredibly considerate of our time, even when I'm sure most of us are happy to listen to the tangents since we are just here to have you give us all this info in such a well-stated manner and share your unique point of view. Anyway, thanks for being considerate and thank you for continuing to make these videos.

@aunulimansfield3277 4 жыл бұрын

My first job was a summer programming job at IBM last year. Thanks for covering such an influential company to both myself and in general. Modern PCs have a direct lineage to old IBM PCs.

@bonecanoe86 4 жыл бұрын

in 2001: A Space Odyssey: HAL is only one letter off from IBM in the alphabet.

@Maniac536 4 жыл бұрын

Yes and in the book 2010 (it’s sequel) Clarke refuted that.

@IONATVS 4 жыл бұрын

The coauthors, Arthur C. Clarke & Stanley Kubrick, were apparently appalled when he realized that because it was definitely not their intention and they were on good terms with IBM (they consulted with IBM to help create HAL’s character and aesthetic for both the book and the movie) and didn’t want to antagonize them with claims that HAL was some kind of secret dig at the company. Clarke actually specifically added a scene to the sequel, 2010: Odyssey Two, where HAL’s creator refutes the connection in-universe, saying that HAL 9000 stands for Heuristic ALgorithmic 9000-series computer.

@thepyrogamer659 4 жыл бұрын

The game development company HAL Laboratories is named for the same reason.

@simondr70 4 жыл бұрын

H-I A-B L-M

@ShlomoTenembaum 4 жыл бұрын

Talking 2001, the pads used by the astronauts have a design that looks like part of the ThinkPad line. I wouldn't be surprised if IBM designers were influenced by 2001.

@maxz8807 4 жыл бұрын

My dad worked at IBM... thanks for making this video as I really was wondering as to what they're doing now

@Geauxtigs 4 жыл бұрын

Honeywell is a good topic for a future video. Company is huge in aerospace, supercomputing, and supply chain management (robotics)

@giuseppeafellay4855 4 жыл бұрын

I've been waiting for an IBM episode for sooooo long! Thanks for this!

@billyboots14 4 жыл бұрын

Saw some photos of the inside of the Rochester, MN, IBM plant. Lots of cool stuff happened inside our Big Blue Building!

@Kylefassbinderful 4 жыл бұрын

The IBM Selectric Typewriter line is a huge part of 20th century Americana. They used a mechanism known as a *wiffletree* that was basically a very early Digital-to-analog converter. MTV news used to have a quick intro animation of a Courier typeball used in the Selectric line. There was a Selectric model in A Clockwork Orange that was used by the writer. Fun fact: in the AMC series _Mad_ _Men_ they have Selectric typewriters in the office pool but they were the wrong models. They were using the second version that actually didn't come out until a few years later.

@s3np411 4 жыл бұрын

I wish they didn't sell to Lenovo. The build quality absolutely went down after that.

@caturdaynite7217 4 жыл бұрын

Still better than Dell, IMO.

@honolulublues5548 4 жыл бұрын

@@caturdaynite7217 depends... I like HP more than both. Even HP has had some bad years, though.

@ughcreature 4 жыл бұрын

@@honolulublues5548 my school made us all buy hp chromebooks and since then ive never went near hp ever again

@kw9849 4 жыл бұрын

@@honolulublues5548 I work at a computer repair shop, and I'll put it like this: there are dozens and dozens of broken HP's in my scrap pile, but only a few Lenovo and Dell products. ...and enough broken Acer's to fill a semi truck.

@ouranhshc100 4 жыл бұрын

Lenovo owns Motorola and they're absolute crap too now.

@ohgodnotme 4 жыл бұрын

Been a big fan for awhile, just wanted to thank you for the hard work you do man.

@rohanlady4 4 жыл бұрын

My father was an IBMer. The then small town in Virginia where we lived was dominated by IBM and if your dad didn't work at IBM, your friend's dad did. I remember the very early PCs he brought home with the small black and green screens and the ginormous floppy discs.

@antoniasalinas513 4 жыл бұрын

This is an excellent channel that needs much, much more love. Keep up the good work!

@malachiparker1057 4 жыл бұрын

7:32 Top Right Hand Corner A random half face is just floating.

@matthewbowen5841 4 жыл бұрын

That is fantastic!

@jeffphillips1832 4 жыл бұрын

"Daisy daisy....." "Shut up Hal!" "Dave No!" "Goodbye Hal"

@oidirk 4 жыл бұрын

Excellent vid! @8:07 IBM System 360 is where I started my IT career in 1979. Still in IT all these years later. That System 360 was a handful to operate!

@williamjoostjr6571 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome video!! Thanks for making this during the quarantine,

@hurfmurf3288 4 жыл бұрын

I'm early so on the off chance you see this, thanks for making these videos. It's really fun to watch and learn about things I thought I would never care about.

@bddm 4 жыл бұрын

Hurf Murf I agree 👍

@jagc2206 4 жыл бұрын

Context to how successful redhat is: They had 64(this is an iconic software number) successive quarters of growth. That is 15years or something, of consistent successive growth. That was a couple years ago.

@mikemancini313 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for making Endicott NY. Emptycott NY!

@everyhandletaken 4 жыл бұрын

I didn’t expect a video on Big Blue, interesting, thanks 🙂

@arbutuswatcher 4 жыл бұрын

Back in 1991, I recall one of our tag lines, when we answered the phone, "Thank You for calling Radio Shack, where our computers are 95% IBM-Compatible". Someone would always ask about the other 5%.... ;) Nicely laid-out, with the history of IBM. It's clear that their past, was building blocks to their present iteration of themselves. I see many striking similarities to the Bell System or AT&T of old. Even the legal aspects (i.e. monopoly) of dominating a market, regardless of what they were building, had the feds getting upset. If AT&T, IBM, & Motorola would have combined forces, I can only wonder what we'd have today. Probably the Master Control Program (Tron) or Skynet (Terminator) running things.

@Markimark151 4 жыл бұрын

IBM is the GE of the tech companies. They were once the biggest company 40 years ago, but they failed to evolve with their competitors, so they focus on business enterprises instead of PCs and computer equipment. Even Warren Buffett has regret investing in IBM instead of Microsoft and Amazon.

@honkhonk8009 4 жыл бұрын

To be fair, its really difficult to adapt to changing technology. it seems obvious now since we already saw the outcome. But if I told you that a book store in 2001 was gonna be the most valuable company in the world, you would call me insane.

@Clay3613 4 жыл бұрын

You couldn't be more wrong, IBM is doing just fine not selling much to consumers. GE is floundering.

@DWilliam1 4 жыл бұрын

I bet he regrets it

@Markimark151 4 жыл бұрын

Bookstores were still popular in 2001, even though they were beginning their downfall, but Amazon was still in their infancy.

@honkhonk8009 4 жыл бұрын

@@Markimark151 Yeah. I cant even remember the last time I read a book. Iv read plenty of articles, on wikipedia about electronics n stuff for my projects and read plenty of articles but never from an actual physical medium. in a way that is kinda sad.

@NeonTedz 4 жыл бұрын

This is a pretty crazy coincidence, but I was just reading about the history of IBM last night instead of sleeping! Well done!

@FlofyOfficial 4 жыл бұрын

Hello ! I am really glad that you made an IBM episode ! :)

@FarrellStephenJ 4 жыл бұрын

They also made rifles for the US during the war at their Poughkeepsie location

@MrChadsimoneaux 4 жыл бұрын

Almost makes up for selling Hollerith machines and punchcards to the Nazis? They used them for the trains to the camps.

@holycrapchris 4 жыл бұрын

@@MrChadsimoneaux Hitler and his troops used tabulating machines made by Dehomag, a German subsidiary of IBM. Dehomag was placed under the control of the Reich government just before the war broke out. If Hitler took over the German subsidiary, what's the parent company (IBM) to do about it? Wire-up remote self-destruct devices in all the German tabulating machines?

@garymckee8857 4 жыл бұрын

M-1 carbines.

@gregdd57 4 жыл бұрын

My Grandfather who was a machinist for IBM at their Endicott, New York facility for over 32 years and retired in 1970, made machine gun barrels for the U.S. Army during WW II!

@xanderalmighty 4 жыл бұрын

I remember ibm laptops when I was younger . They had that that red trackpoint button that controlled the mouse cursor. I think you see them recently on Lenovos

@sirluke7 4 жыл бұрын

I have the red button, trackpad, and a seperate mouse on my new Lenovo. I've been using ThinkPads before Judge Ito finally put tape over the ThinkPad logo during the O.J. Simpson trial. So I had 3 ThinkPads made by IBM and now on my 3rd and LAST Lenovo ThinkPad. HUGE difference in customer service of the two companies. My last two Lenovo's died. All my IBM ThinkPads still work from 1997, they just got flakey with each major Windows upgrade... At no extra charge in 2005, IBM engineers solved a problem on my ThinkPad T at 3:30 in the morning! U.S. based customer service engineer on duty in Atlanta, Georgia. I had just called to get a recording to see what time they opened. That gal fixed me up right then!!! Lenovo I've needed many times... all I get there is a big F U. I like their keyboards still and they are what I need port wise on the road.

@TrueThanny 4 жыл бұрын

Lenovos _are_ IBM laptops. IBM sold their laptop and desktop business off, including the ThinkPad name, which used to be the premiere laptop to have.

@TrueThanny 4 жыл бұрын

@Ishtiaque Walid Most people quite like them. They are much easier to use than a track pad.

@Zestyclose-Big3127 4 жыл бұрын

@Ishtiaque Walidhi

@monochromehysteria9111 4 жыл бұрын

You're on a roll with these videos keep it up

@bryedtan 4 жыл бұрын

OH my watching your video using a Lenovo Laptop and you just mentioned IBM a company I used to work for (Customer Service Dept) I knew they were involved in a lot of companies I did not know Lenovo was one of them amazing good work as always keep up the hood work and stay safe in these trying times from a fan in the Philippines.

@Dennisaj 4 жыл бұрын

Please do “Why EA is hated” next please!!!

@6z0 4 жыл бұрын

Asaad Dennis This is already a top recommendation on his website. He dosent accept ideas from youtube comments, only his website :)

@moldy_banana5015 4 жыл бұрын

Jafuh he has a website?

@pietnickolas3423 4 жыл бұрын

Yeaasss

@motap4935 4 жыл бұрын

Bruh if u know that ea is hated u know why probably

@moldy_banana5015 4 жыл бұрын

Jafuh bruhhhh, what is his website??

@user-sb8cs3le2j 4 жыл бұрын

Last time I was this early,Enron was still considered a great investment.

@DDDDD760 4 жыл бұрын

My 70 year old mother worked for IBM in the ‘60’s and worked with the tabulating machines.I learned to type on an IBM electric typewriter and then on IBM PC’s in the ‘80’s, I remember when Window’s software said “IBM Compatible.” I really enjoy your videos!!!

@crabcaks 4 жыл бұрын

ive never been this early! glad i put on notifications. great video so far!

@timurtheterrible4062 4 жыл бұрын

The 8 people who disliked were employees who were laid off when IBM stopped making PCs.

@Silverado138 4 жыл бұрын

🤣😂

@shugies 4 жыл бұрын

Or it could be because of ibms support of the nazis....

@ojoemojo 4 жыл бұрын

Donovan DeBell lol I bet your glad middle school is out

@allnamesaretakenful 4 жыл бұрын

No, some of us disliked because he left out the part where IBM helped the Nazis.

@agisler87 4 жыл бұрын

I didn't dislike the video but I didn't like working for IBM. 😁

@johndelagarza361 4 жыл бұрын

They even made guns during WW2, M1 Carbines.

@YTKhaos 3 жыл бұрын

i love my IBM carbine..my dad used to be in IT in the 90s/2000s and had to have it

@bradenf 4 жыл бұрын

I worked for IBM from 1977 until 2016 (lol, one month short of 20 years, they might have planned that). They were customers of my independent consultantancy for 4 or 5 years before that. I was nearing 66 when I retired. I've never looked back.

@bradenf 4 жыл бұрын

I mean 1997.

@ujwalganesh2954 4 жыл бұрын

Very nice video, crisp, engaging and a great voice

@biggerbusiness6748 4 жыл бұрын

Would love to see a Subway decline video - they've really been struggling the past decade - would love to hear your thoughts!

@redwish8965 4 жыл бұрын

IMB makes a lot of hardware though even in today’s standards, a lot of our self checkouts and automation related services are all made by IBM.

@holycrapchris 4 жыл бұрын

And that business was sold to Toshiba. Still a lot of IBM-branded gear around though.

@Sabundy 4 жыл бұрын

@@holycrapchris Right. Toshiba is now the largest POS manufacturer in the world.

@h.mandelene3279 2 жыл бұрын

@@Sabundy What?? Piece Of Sh...? jk

@Sabundy 2 жыл бұрын

@@h.mandelene3279 hahahaha....I know right? I always laugh too when they abbreviate point of sale to POS 🤣🤣🤣

@fordsmith1774 4 жыл бұрын

My sister works for IBM and while they’re clearly a superpower, one of the craziest stories I’ve heard from her is how they monitor their workers by tracking anonymously sent emails by using Watson, the supercomputer artificial intelligence, to decipher who sent the emails. They are on some high-tech, big brother Kinda energy

@alfredodoardi2717 4 жыл бұрын

Nice post- I joined IBM in 95, repairing computers, cash registers and self checkouts ,terminals (like the one at the close of your video), printers and communication devices. I'd been with a third party vendor, the preceeding ten years, doing the same. Like their pc line, (I serviced lenovo after the sale, as an IBM tech) the point of sale interests, were sold to Toshiba (along with me). In the early part of the millennia I began to notice the shift from hardware, to services. I'd always told people, Software was where the money was, so it wasn't surprising to see a clever place like IBM, transition to that direction.

@nazmulhaquenishan2591 4 жыл бұрын

8:15 *So many companies failed.....* , *casually shows Kodak* #swift&Savage

@Dennisaj 4 жыл бұрын

Please do “The fall of WCW Wrestling” 🤼‍♀️ next please.

@hunterdavis3003 4 жыл бұрын

NWA!

@leebailey6181 4 жыл бұрын

WWF. Mankind Vs. The Rock WWF Championship

@InfectedChris 4 жыл бұрын

Russo

@hydrogendiamond5830 4 жыл бұрын

Kind of hard to do since WCW was always a subsidiary to Turner Broadcasting. A better one to do is the history of WarnerMedia, since they own Turner Broadcasting, and have a history that stretches before and after WCW.

@TheCyberReporter 4 жыл бұрын

This ain't the channel for that lmao

@jesusbeloved3953 4 жыл бұрын

I’m older than your usual viewer, so I knew where you were going from the beginning. When I was thinking about an office job, learning how to ‘key cards’ was something I had been deciding whether to do or not. That was in the early seventies. Glad I went to factory because key punch went the way of the dinosaur!

@PartyFlorida 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the content!

@bk649cc 4 жыл бұрын

Those tabulating machines were greatly appreciated by the Nazis as well.

@simondr70 4 жыл бұрын

Same with Ford motors in their trucks

@Kaseyberg 4 жыл бұрын

@@simondr70 i think you mean the soviets when talking about the trucks

@OriginalBongoliath 4 жыл бұрын

No different to megacorps in China today.

@AEMoreira81 3 жыл бұрын

IBM claimed that they were made by their German division, Dehomag, but they were actually USA made machines. I know exactly what you mean.

@jan-lukas 2 жыл бұрын

Technology is always used in a lot of ways and by a lot of people, so every technology will be used by "bad" (what exactly bad means depends on your opinion) people, and because of that in my opinion technology is nearly never good or bad or something along those lines by itself, but the people using that technology are.

@deathtaco4095 4 жыл бұрын

you should make a video about RCA they were pretty cool and that whole ordeal with the CED

@mspysu79 4 жыл бұрын

RCA, called by people who worked there not the Radio Corporation of America "Rebranding Corporation of America" or Rugs Chickens and Autos. Ruined by bad management, a fractured structure, and way too much interest in diversification. Finally killed off by GE who only bought RCA for NBC and its defense/aerospace division.

@catherinefowler3249 4 жыл бұрын

I like the music you have at the beginning of your videos.

@kirbymarchbarcena 4 жыл бұрын

One thing that I admire about IBM is that they know how to adapt in every generation.

@isosoriharrison9556 4 жыл бұрын

IBM is smart honestly, PC’s have slowed down but software value keeps increasing.

@w3r0ification 3 жыл бұрын

But look at Microsoft raking over because Apple MacBook suck now so Microsoft start taking over 🙄 now laptops are selling again because js many things you can't do with your phone ir tablet

@williamjoostjr6571 4 жыл бұрын

Could you make a video about any of the following: Bosch AG, Continental AG, Denso Corp or Michelin

@CourtneyCoulson 4 жыл бұрын

These are my favourite kinds of episodes, the ones that cover long running companies also become a bit of a history lesson. Tabulating machines, that's new to me.

@roberthansen2008 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for another great video.

@gigrant9194 4 жыл бұрын

7:32 is no going to talk about that half face on the top right?

@JohnWick-iv3cn 4 жыл бұрын

Could you go over the 2008 financial crash or 90s dot com bubble?

@cassiapalladium2921 3 жыл бұрын

I have a 2001 IBM Thinkpad a22m, and to be honest, despite being nearly two decades old, it's probably one of the best laptops I've ever owned. Sure I can't get on the internet, but for word processing, gaming, anything productivity, it's still reliable and easy to use to the point that I do use it in everyday life. Also the keyboard way outclasses any new laptop, to be sure.

@pranker901 4 жыл бұрын

I love playing video games while listening to your videos. Its like cheese and wine you guys have got to try it!

@mango1715 4 жыл бұрын

Can you do a video on American Megatrends? I would love to hear about them

@honkhonk8009 4 жыл бұрын

Their doign good i think. They still have a choke hold on the bios industry,.

@purpl3grape 4 жыл бұрын

Nobody ever thought of counterfeiting those cards? I mean they were cards!

@cronchcrunch 4 жыл бұрын

Your company would most likely receive a massive fine for doing that, just like you would these days if your company was caught using pirated software.

@raptorfromthe6ix833 4 жыл бұрын

back then you couldnt just make cards

@Bigbadwhitecracker 4 жыл бұрын

I did a lot of traveling for work last year and my main computer was an IBM X41 tablet PC, the last IBM before selling to Lenovo. I love this little computer

@BrooksyTech 4 жыл бұрын

Nice video! Great company to cover.

@Arbiter099 4 жыл бұрын

sounds like there'll be an LGR thing sometime in the future about an IBM meat slicer

@steliosk6424 4 жыл бұрын

I love how you just passed over the whole IBM selling to NAZI's part

@BargainBinkey 4 жыл бұрын

1000 Subs with just Playlists those are the guys I always think about. And I wonder if they didn’t bring the full fascist vision to light in the USA.

@jaymevosburgh3660 3 жыл бұрын

@1000 Subs with just Playlists Yeah that would be a much better video. It is amazing what some people are able to get away with. I know money helps but charisma can get a person far.

@YTKhaos 3 жыл бұрын

they made rifles to kill them too

@aheh605 3 жыл бұрын

Wow it’s almost like the US didn’t take in a large amount of Nazi scientists either, or brands like Mercedes Benz and BMW’s histories with the nazis. Wow that’s fucking crazyyyy. Grow the fuck up. If you’re a company during world war 2, you’re gonna do what you have to to survive.

@steliosk6424 3 жыл бұрын

@@aheh605 BMW and mercedes are German companies and operation paper clip was a secret operation that the american public did not know about or would not have super been happy to hear there were nazis running around NASA. Your point isn't valid at all this is an AMERICAN company that was doing business with NAZIs during WW2. That is a treasonous move. I appreciate what you're trying to say about companies doing what they had to do but IBM was never located in a country occupied by NAZIs forcing them do make it work or siding with a ruling regime. This is a greedy business doing a treasonous thing. Soooo maybe before you want to come with that level of aggression you'd want to get your facts in order so you don't look like a twat ....but what the fuck do I know ?

@SkyHoustonCrypto 4 жыл бұрын

Love your channel Just subscribed

@Erebusdidnothingwrongish 4 жыл бұрын

I always just took it for IBM never thought about their past. Very interesting. Love UK.

@AcornScorn 4 жыл бұрын

Man it's funny I work at IBM (Low level sysAdmin/Project manager) it seems our main goal is to get in the cloud market and use our red hat acquisition to its fullest

@DanielK1213th 3 жыл бұрын

It'd be hard to beat AWS though and Azure which is Windows users' default.. which makes them 90 percent of the PC market. I am not sure what IBM will do.

@napoleonibonaparte7198 4 жыл бұрын

Professionals: IBM = International Business Machine Me: Internal Bowel Movement... hehe...

@Frownbake 4 жыл бұрын

I always enjoy your videos

@Choralone422 4 жыл бұрын

I was a manager at a large US 3rd party laptop repair depot through the late 90's and most of the 2000s. IBM was one of many OEMs we did warranty repair work for. IBM sold the PC division to Lenovo in May 2005 mostly because the PC hardware division of IBM hadn't made a profit for a single quarter since the 3rd quarter of 2001. The only reason why that quarter was profitable was because State Farm Insurance purchased about 75,000 laptops from IBM as State Farm was switching from Toshiba to IBM. State Farm was one of our customers and we serviced both Toshiba & IBM laptops. We were well aware of the deal & its ramifications for all involved companies. I was also at the IBM/Lenovo Think Open conference at the Contemporary Resort in Disney World in May 2005. Being a 3rd party warranty provider my boss (who was the VP of our company) and I had a lot of questions when that deal went down!

@michaelhernandez4635 4 жыл бұрын

Anyone else wonder where Company Man gets all this stock footage of business people talking?

@quatreunhuit 4 жыл бұрын

Probably from Adobe Stock.

@vincenttraylor1696 4 жыл бұрын

IBMs biggest partner was The Nazis, Skipped that out the history of the Nazis and IBM

@OriginalBongoliath 4 жыл бұрын

No different to what megacorps are doing in China today.

@CMG78 4 жыл бұрын

was not the focus of the video. the video was about a company switching directions not a full history.

@michaelmccarthy4615 4 жыл бұрын

My dads office gave me an IBM Selectric II self correcting typewriter in the early 80s when they shifted to PCs.... It was a small desk top of metal but it was fun to use for a while. It was so sleek.