Chapt 10 Product Concepts

Fifty years ago IBM introduced the Model B Standard and Model B Executive Typewriters.

IBMs line of products is very wide ranging from Keypunchers back in 1910 to the Watson in present day. Of course IBM sales 'business Products' which means they manufacture new goods & services to sell. Since IBM is over 100 years old they have obviously extended their product line. IBM has had a hand in typewriters between 1935 and 1977.

Fast forward... and IBM has the Watson... the Smart computer a computer designed to give precise answers to questions. Watson competed against Jeopardy players and won. Watson has four terabytes of disk storage, including the full text of Wikipedia. Watson wasn't connected to the Internet during the game. Throughout time IBM has created a simple product, then had it reinvented and made it better and continues to do so. Currently IBM is working on a Smarter Planet Project to make the world more efficient.