International Business Machines Corp. - IBM - Famous Computer Co. - Sheet of 3 Specimen Stock Certificate
Inv# SE3334A Specimen Stock
New York
Sheet of 3 Specimen Stocks printed by United States Bank Note Corporation. IBM for short!
International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, operates globally with operations spanning over 170 countries. Established in 1911 in Endicott, New York, as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR), the company underwent a name change to “International Business Machines” in 1924. IBM is incorporated in New York.
IBM’s product portfolio encompasses computer hardware, middleware, and software, along with hosting and consulting services in diverse areas, including mainframe computers, nanotechnology, and more. Beyond its product offerings, IBM is a prominent research organization, holding the record for the highest number of annual U.S. patents generated by a business (as of 2020) for an impressive 28 consecutive years. Notable inventions by IBM include the automated teller machine (ATM), the floppy disk, the hard disk drive, the magnetic stripe card, the relational database, the SQL programming language, the UPC barcode, and dynamic random-access memory (DRAM). The IBM mainframe, exemplified by the System/360, dominated the computing landscape during the 1960s and 1970s.
To align its business operations with higher-value, more profitable markets, IBM has undergone a series of strategic shifts. These include the spin-off of printer manufacturer Lexmark in 1991, the sale of its personal computer (ThinkPad/ThinkCentre) and x86-based server businesses to Lenovo in 2005 and 2014, respectively, and the acquisition of companies such as PwC Consulting (2002), SPSS (2009), The Weather Company (2016), and Red Hat (2019). In 2015, IBM announced its decision to adopt a “fabless” approach, continuing to design semiconductors while offloading manufacturing to GlobalFoundries. In 2020, the company further expanded its services by spinning off the Managed Infrastructure Services unit of its Global Technology Services division, with the anticipated completion of this spin-off by the end of 2021.
Stock and Bond Specimens are made and usually retained by a printer as a record of the contract with a client, generally with manuscript contract notes such as the quantity printed. Specimens are sometimes produced for use by the printing company's sales team as examples of the firms products. These are usually marked "Specimen" and have no serial numbers.
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