In pictures: Celebrating 100 years of IBM

To mark IBM's centenary year, CIO Australia has put together a slideshow of the company throughout the past 100 years.

1960s: An IBM System/360 Model 65 is linked on-line to high speed computer terminals at refineries in NSW and Victoria. The terminals were used to transmit data on the performance of refinery equipment, enabling the Model 65 to highlight areas where corrective action should be taken by Shell engineers. The handsets in the foreground provided the computer centre manager with voice communications to terminal operators. IBM technology is still used to optimise the extraction and use of oil around the world, including 3-D seismic modelling to locate fields; sensing technologies to track oil flow; and virtualisation to manage oil tracking and mining remotely.



Also: CIO Blast from the Past - 110 Years of IBM technology.

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