who is the founder of IBM computers???
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Thomas J. Watson JR.\nborn in Dayton, Ohio. 1914\n1946 returned from war and rejoined IBM, within a year he became vice president and a member of the board of directors.\n1956 became IBM CEO.\n1971 stepped down as chairman and CEO after suffering a heart attack. T. Vincent Learson became CEO.\n1979 served as US Ambassador to the S. Union until 1981.\n1985 stepped down from IBM board.\n1993 died at 79 in Greenwich, Conn.\n      "Perhaps the most important legacy of his leadership can be summarized in just three words: IBM means service," \n^_^
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Bill Gates.\n\nNo question about it. Fully documented.
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Hello..Anyone from thr pals above are right about it. The PERSON WHO INVENTED COMPUTER FOR THE FIRST TIME . IT IS JOHN ATANASSOV. HE DIED ONLY A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO IN USA AND I HAVE THE PLEASURE TO KNOW ONE OF HIS GRANDCHILDREN!!
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The first "computer" :)  was discover in 1938 by John Atanasov (lived in the USA, but bulgarian :) )
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Unfortunately, I believe the answer goes to Bill Gates.  Not only is he super smart when it comes to computers, etc, he's also a savey business person.
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The powerPC didn't exist then.  IBM's chips at the time were designed for more powerful and expensive systems.  The PowerPC didn't actually come out until 1993 in alliance with Apple and Motorolla(AIM).  IBMs own Power chip, which the PowerPC shares a lot with didn't come out until 1990
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Just go to the IBM site..you can download all manuals from there
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computer history timeline up until 1985:\nComputer History \nYear/Enter Computer History \nInventors/Inventions Computer History \nDescription of Event \n1936 Konrad Zuse - Z1 Computer First freely programmable computer. \n1942 John Atanasoff & Clifford Berry \nABC Computer Who was first in the computing biz is not always as easy as ABC. \n1944 Howard Aiken & Grace Hopper \nHarvard Mark I Computer The Harvard Mark 1 computer. \n1946 John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly \nENIAC 1 Computer 20,000 vacuum tubes later... \n1948 Frederic Williams & Tom Kilburn \nManchester Baby Computer & The Williams Tube Baby and the Williams Tube turn on the memories. \n1947/48 John Bardeen, Walter Brattain & Wiliam Shockley \nThe Transistor No, a transistor is not a computer, but this invention greatly affected the history of computers.  \n1951 John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly \nUNIVAC Computer First commercial computer & able to pick presidential winners. \n1953 International Business Machines \nIBM 701 EDPM Computer IBM enters into 'The History of Computers'. \n1954 John Backus & IBM  \nFORTRAN Computer Programming Language The first successful high level programming language. \n1955\n(In Use 1959) \n Stanford Research Institute, Bank of America,  and General Electric\nERMA and MICR The first bank industry computer - also MICR (magnetic ink character recognition) for reading checks. \n1958 Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce \nThe Integrated Circuit Otherwise known as 'The Chip' \n1962 Steve Russell & MIT \nSpacewar Computer Game The first computer game invented. \n1964 Douglas Engelbart \nComputer Mouse & Windows Nicknamed the mouse because the tail came out the end. \n1969 ARPAnet The original Internet. \n1970 Intel 1103 Computer Memory The world's first available dynamic RAM chip. \n1971 Faggin, Hoff & Mazor \nIntel 4004 Computer Microprocessor The first microprocessor. \n1971 Alan Shugart &IBM \nThe "Floppy" Disk Nicknamed the "Floppy" for its flexibility. \n1973 Robert Metcalfe & Xerox \nThe Ethernet Computer Networking Networking. \n1974/75 Scelbi  & Mark-8 Altair & IBM 5100 Computers The first consumer computers. \n1976/77 Apple I, II & TRS-80 & Commodore Pet Computers More first consumer computers. \n1978 Dan Bricklin & Bob Frankston \nVisiCalc Spreadsheet Software Any product that pays for itself in two weeks is a surefire winner. \n1979 Seymour Rubenstein & Rob Barnaby \nWordStar Software Word Processors. \n1981 IBM \nThe IBM PC - Home Computer From an "Acorn" grows a personal computer revolution \n1981 Microsoft \nMS-DOS Computer Operating System From "Quick And Dirty" comes the operating system of the century. \n1983 Apple Lisa Computer The first home computer with a GUI, graphical user interface. \n1984 Apple Macintosh Computer The more affordable home computer with a GUI. \n1985 Microsoft Windows Microsoft begins the friendly war with Apple.
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While at Harvard, Gates developed a version of the programming language BASIC for the first microcomputer - the MITS Altair\nWhile in high school, he and Paul Allen founded Traf-O-Data, a company which sold traffic flow data systems to state governments. He also helped to create a payroll system in COBOL, for a company in Portland, Oregon.
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IBM:International Business Machines is a publically held company. So the short answer is the stockholders. You can research their prospectus to find out who the major stockholders are. But no one "owns" the compnay privately.
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If you click on this URL, it will give you the historical quotes for IBM directly from yahoo's finance pages.  The quotes will be in CSV format, and excel will open them right up.\n\nhttp://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=IBM&d=10&e=19&f=2006&g=d&a=0&b=2&c=1962&ignore=.csv
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visit IBM.com\n\nranges from 250-350$. depends on the specs!
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In 1956 IBM invented the first computer disk storage system, the 305 RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control).  This system could store 5 MBytes.  It had fifty, 24-inch diameter disks.\n\nthis is a picture of the 305 RAMAC (1 ton for 5 MB storage capacity)\nhttp://duggmirror.com/hardware/First_Computer_with_a_5MB_Hard_Drive_Photo/
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Good question, if phrased slightly incorrectly.  Bill Gates managed to sell the rights to an operating system to IBM way back in the day, that he didn't even have yet.  He paid a person in Washington state $50,000 for DOS and provided that to IBM.  That's how Microsoft was started.  Bill Gates never wrote a line of code in his life.\n\nIf your curious about this I suggest you watch Pirates of Silicon Valley, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168122/ which goes from Apple being on top to the beginnings of Microsoft and how Microsoft eventually climbed their way to the top.\n\nBut, Bill Gates started Microsoft on the basis of an operating system he didn't even have when he started it.
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<<best answer>> :D\nCharles babbage is "Father of Computers" not computer science. \n\nComputer science was developed by several developers and not one.\n\nhere's a link that i found online\nhttp://www.cwru.edu/pubaff/univcomm/2003/4-03/minsky.htm\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing
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Wikipedia has a good resource starting well before 1949\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computers\n\nAbout.com has some interesting stuff\nhttp://inventors.about.com/library/blcoindex.htm\n\nHere's a link to Yahoo's category\nhttp://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/History/
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Your question is not clear. You may like to search the IBM's developerworks site for ideas/examples or look up the MQ home page on the IBM website.