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Want to know who the self-confessed "mother of the motherboard" is? Or
why every piece of organically farmed, tenderly loved food at your
local Trader Joe's has a barcode on it? Or perhaps you're curious to
learn more about how millions of airline reservations can be made
around the world with unfailing reliability? All those queries have
their answers in IBM's self-congratulating videos after the break.
Commissioned as a celebration of the company's upcoming 100th
birthday, they chronicle some of its more notable moments in the
global spotlight. Our favorite little nugget of discovery was finding
out that testing for the IBM Personal Computer included the question,
"would it run Pac-Man?" -- conclusively proving that the foremost
reason for the PC's existence is, and has always been, gaming.
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