15 Jun
2011
15 Jun
'11
10:06 a.m.
On 2011 Jun 15, at 2:37 AM, vintagecoder at aol.com wrote:
I haven't seen anything in this thread that would counter that
well-known history.
CTR, an American company (with its foreign acquisition Dehomag) became
IBM, an American (headquartered) company.
The Hollerith-card technology and equipment originated in America, well
before Dehomag existed.
According to one of your wiki refs Dehomag provided some patents or
intellectual property to IBM, but I have never seen anything to suggest
that was a majority or even significant portion of the Hollerith-card
technology.
I don't know how you would get from all that to "IBM started out as a
German company".
The problem in
all this started with your statement that "IBM started
out
as a German company". That flies in the face of all the well-known
history.
If you go by this thread the "well-known" history isn't.
IBM didn't exist before they bought the company that turned out to be
their
main business and source of income over the next 2 decades. They
weren't
IBM before they bought Dehomag, the next year they became IBM. There,
does
that mean we can all be friends again?