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Thomas J. Watson · 1911

IBM under Thomas J. Watson Sr. was a sales-and-leasing enterprise built on punched card tabulators — not computing. Its dominance relied on vertical control, not technical novelty. That control was dismantled by antitrust action in 1936. Everything else — System/360, AI, PCs — belongs to a later era.