IBM (help settle an argument)

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Without looking it up, do you know what IBM stands for?

Yabu- I know
Yanbu- I don’t know.

Yes but my dh worked for them for 19 years.

Involuntary bowel movement?

International business machine

Yes, but just a random fact I've remembered. At the time they thought they'd only ever sell a few to large companies

That’s what came to mind for me first! 😂 I don’t think I know what the computer-related IBM stands for.

No idea

Yes, but I worked in IT for a US company for a while.

Yes, absolutely. But work in computing and have done for years, so not surprising. Unless you mean a non-computing related acronym in which case I have no idea!

International Business .... something or other (menopause brain has deleted the last word).

My mum used to work for them in the 1950s in the UK - it was known as the Tab, they were data tabulating machines.

DH still works for them, so yes.

International Binary Machines. At a guess.

Yes. Worked for them.for over a decade

I didn't know, but on a tangent, who knows what SCS (the sofa place) stands for?

Yes, I used to work for them.

Business not Binary don't know what happened there.

Irritating Bloody Menopause 😁

International Business Machines

"Something" Business Machines?

Integrated or International, would be my first guess.

《Goes off to Google IBM》

Yea, but only because my Dad worked there for many years

Always known

I don’t know what IBM is but I know that SCS is sofa, carpets, specialists

Yes

Worked on their word processors for quite a long time in the 70's and we always called them itty bitty machines! :)

Yes, former boyfriend was an IBM-er and I’d also read a really interesting book called IBM and the holocaust - on how the Nazis had used their machines to co-ordinate to help organise the holocaust.