Upload Photo  IBM products through the years  IBM was
incorporated in the state of New York on June 16, 1911 as the
Computing- Tabulating- Recording Company (C-T-R). But the
company's origins can be traced back to the invention of the
dial recorder by Dr. Alexander Dey in 1888, which became a
building block of C-T-R. As the company expanded beyond
recording devices it changed its name to International Business
Machines Corp. in February 1924. Twenty years later, IBM
completed the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator, which
marked its first step towards computing, and in 1952 it
introduced the first large computer, the IBM 701. As customer
demand for its computers waned in the 21st century, the company
shifted its focus to infrastructure support of e-businesses with
a new generation of servers.