IBM was founded in 1898 by German inventor Herman Hollerith as a census tabulating company.
(1) IBM was created in 1911 (initially as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company) as an amalgamation of four companies, one of which was Hollerith's.
(2) Hollerith himself was not a "German inventor" but rather U.S.-born of German immigrant parents.
But hey, what's bit of sloppy hyperbole if it drives your point across?
>hey, what's bit of sloppy hyperbole if it drives your point across?
The type of person who stopped their reading on totalitarianism with the fall of the Nazis rather than the fall of the Berlin Wall tend to be unreliable narrators.
IBM was founded in 1898 by German inventor Herman Hollerith as a census tabulating company.
(1) IBM was created in 1911 (initially as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company) as an amalgamation of four companies, one of which was Hollerith's.
(2) Hollerith himself was not a "German inventor" but rather U.S.-born of German immigrant parents.
But hey, what's bit of sloppy hyperbole if it drives your point across?