“No paper moving cartridge!”“No type bars!”
“Prints faster than the eye can see.”
The old school way to change fonts. Turns 53 today. #TBT
10 years ago
Ooo La La IBM, circa 1957
More than a half century after introducing the IBM 704 to France, this vintage ad has a certain design joie de vivre.
Translation:
10 years ago
“5 Reasons to Love ‘Mad Men’s’ New Star: The IBM 360"
via NBCNews →
And for Throwback Thursday, here’s one of the original ads.
10 years ago
From the Vault:
PROTEIN PATTERNS, 1961
When this vintage ad ran in the early 60s, “DNA’ was on the tip of every biochemists’ tongue. They were all abuzz about its relationship with cell proteins and their molecular chains and patterns. Using a computer, pioneering IBMers in math and biochemistry began applying mathematical logic to huge amounts of data to piece together the sequence of atoms in the protein chain. It was Big Data analysis before it was BIG.
11 years ago
From the Vault: STRETCH, 1961
In the early 60s, IBM ran this ad for STRETCH, the world’s most powerful computer, created for the Alamos Scientific Lab. Unheard of at the time, it could make about six million additions in a matter of seconds. Compare that to IBM’s latest supercomputer, Sequoia, which can make twenty quadrillion calculations per second. So how will we define ‘fast’ in the future?
11 years ago
One of our 1997 e-business ads. To think that 16 years ago, merely capturing tennis stats in real time was extreme innovation. Now, what’s not in real time?
11 years ago
An e-business ad we ran in the 90s, featuring how we bring fans closer to the game with technology. Sixteen years later, we’re still at it - only now they don’t have to wait for a dial-up connection.
11 years ago
In the mid 90s, we ran this ad for IBM e-business. At the time, e-commerce was still a fledgling business model. My how things have changed.
11 years ago
