was incorporated in the State of New York on June 15, 1911 as the Computing - Tabulating - Recording Co. (C-T-R), a consolidation of the Computing Scale Co. of America, The Tabulating Machine Co., and The International Time Recording Co. of New York. In 1924, C-T-R adopted the name International Business Machines.

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