26. • More patents than any company, in 19 consecutive years
27. • More patents than any company, in 19 consecutive years
• Voted most respected, admired and innovative company
28. • More patents than any company, in 19 consecutive years
• Voted most respected, admired and innovative company
• Inventor of ATMs, hard disks, magnetic stripes, programming
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My name’s Leila Johnston and I take photos of IBM tills when I see them in shops and cafes.\n
My name’s Leila Johnston and I take photographs of IBM tills.\n
It can get a little bit samey, so I did two Toshiba ones in Costa... just to see how it felt. It didn’t feel right at all. It didn’t mean anything. It won’t happen again.\n
I plotted them all on a map.\n
Finally, some rules to help your location spotting.\n
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and then I started going out and taking photos in the exact places I remembered scenes being shot\n
and then I started going out and taking photos in the exact places I remembered scenes being shot\n
and then I started going out and taking photos in the exact places I remembered scenes being shot\n
and then I started going out and taking photos in the exact places I remembered scenes being shot\n
and then I started going out and taking photos in the exact places I remembered scenes being shot\n
and then I started going out and taking photos in the exact places I remembered scenes being shot\n
and then I started going out and taking photos in the exact places I remembered scenes being shot\n
and then I started going out and taking photos in the exact places I remembered scenes being shot\n
and then I started going out and taking photos in the exact places I remembered scenes being shot\n
and then I started going out and taking photos in the exact places I remembered scenes being shot\n
You must photograph the till exactly as you find it.\n
If additional IBM hardware is visible, email me immediately!\n
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Once I’ve taken these photos, I plot them on a Google map. \nI don’t know why I do this. \nI put this talk together in an attempt to find out.\n
To start with, I wondered if it was because IBM is interesting. But I just don’t know if that’s what it is?So I started thinking about when I first became interested in IBM.\n
To start with, I wondered if it was because IBM is interesting. But I just don’t know if that’s what it is?So I started thinking about when I first became interested in IBM.\n
To start with, I wondered if it was because IBM is interesting. But I just don’t know if that’s what it is?So I started thinking about when I first became interested in IBM.\n
To start with, I wondered if it was because IBM is interesting. But I just don’t know if that’s what it is?So I started thinking about when I first became interested in IBM.\n
To start with, I wondered if it was because IBM is interesting. But I just don’t know if that’s what it is?So I started thinking about when I first became interested in IBM.\n
This is the IBMsurePOS500 from 2010. Isn’t it beautiful?\n
Just for comparison, this is the competition. A Samsung ER-5215M and a Sharp ER-A320. Looking at that, I feel sort of embarrassed for them.\n
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When I was a child I lived in Scotland, near a small coastal town called Greenock. \nThis is me.\nThis is the promenade where I learned to ride my bike. And this is what I had on my bedroom wall.\n
When I was a child I lived in Scotland, near a small coastal town called Greenock. \nThis is me.\nThis is the promenade where I learned to ride my bike. And this is what I had on my bedroom wall.\n
When I was a child I lived in Scotland, near a small coastal town called Greenock. \nThis is me.\nThis is the promenade where I learned to ride my bike. And this is what I had on my bedroom wall.\n
I lived near IBM Halt. The parents of all my friends at school worked at IBM. It opened in 1978 and provided a glimmer of hope in a very difficult time. Also a very significant employer for the area, employing over 4,000 people. Silicon Glen replaced heavy industries – in decline in Scotland since the 50s. This whole part of Scotland was a major centre for electronics production in the 60s & 70s. MOST of the UK’s ATMs, workstations and PCs came from the area. \n
Greenock wasn’t quite like the other IBM plants. Here we have Israel’s Haifa offices, Zurich’s research centre, IBM Armonk in New York, and... Greenock.\n
Greenock wasn’t quite like the other IBM plants. Here we have Israel’s Haifa offices, Zurich’s research centre, IBM Armonk in New York, and... Greenock.\n
Greenock wasn’t quite like the other IBM plants. Here we have Israel’s Haifa offices, Zurich’s research centre, IBM Armonk in New York, and... Greenock.\n
Greenock wasn’t quite like the other IBM plants. Here we have Israel’s Haifa offices, Zurich’s research centre, IBM Armonk in New York, and... Greenock.\n
IBM 5140 (1985) and an IBM 5150\n
It’s almost TOO INTERESTING?! This extremely portable machine ran BASIC and APL! It could be used for debugging!\n
IBM 1130 – definitely made in Greenock because I spoke to the National Museum of Computing about it. A structural engineering computer from the mid-60s.\n
...the kind of parents who took us to so many arms fairs when we were little, that our childhood years look like an invasion of Croatia.\n
The more I looked at those photos, the more I realised. While it might seem weird for my parents to document their kids’ lives by moving the camera four inches to the left and snapping instead a totally impersonal, unchanging, BORING, object, it was in a way inspiring. It laid the foundation for my path life. It laid the TARMAC. All puns aside, in a funny way, having dozens of photos of land rovers and red arrows to every one of our tiny, fragile, innocent faces, underpinned those years with a sense of security. Boring things give us a sense od security. And like my parents, I spend my life obsessively documenting boring things at the expense of humans, too. I even managed to make IBM boring!\n
So! Add your IBM tills to my map, and instagram them with the hashtag #ibmtills – and let’s make sure this grand tradition started by my parents can continue.\n