On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Leandro DUTRA wrote:
>
> 2008/3/25, Ali Shah <alizookoman@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>
>> IBM made clocks?
>
> I have somewhere a photograph of an IBM clock at the museum of a
> southern Brazilian winemaker, used for controlling working hours. So
> yes, clocks were 'International Business Machines'.
And for even more obscure IBM trivia; What was IBM Canada's first product?
A cheese cutter!
ref:
http://mail.computerhistory.org/pipermail/inforoots/2003-November/001264.html
Ah the useless bits of trivia you pick up working there..... :-)
-mark
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