IBM 

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Party tonight at Tyler's house. IBM if you plan on coming!

IBM by EpicMZK December 24, 2015

IBM 

The company forced out of its own PC market by shitty computer manufacturers like Packard Bell and eMachines that made copies of IBM computers and undercut them.

Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM.

IBM by bob_bobbb July 23, 2016

IBM 

1. International Business Machines
2. Big Blue

The creators of the BIOS system most computers are based around. Unfortunately arrogant enough to publish their BIOS code in a context akin to saying, "Look, this is how it's done. If you do it in a similar way we'll know where you got it from."

Phoenix Technologies where the first to successfully cheat the challenge; one team of scientists simply worked directly on the IBM BIOS and made an exhaustive table of commands and responses, another team who had no knowledge of IBMs existing code were given the table to write a new BIOS.

This is how IBM lost their monopoly on PC design, how the first buyers of Phoenix BIOS, Compaq placed themselves on the market, and generally a nice example of David and Goliath.

The IBM BIOS standard becoming ripped off has both advanced compatibility and held back the market at once, but at least it's basically open-source.

IBM by dj_monged August 16, 2004

IBM 

International Business Machines
I've Been Misled
Idiots Become Managers
I've Been Misinformed
I'm Being Mocked

"I've switched jobs 5 times since I started working for IBM, and now I have experience in food service, retail, water treatment and banking. Sadly, I haven't touched a PC in so long, I forgot what they look like."

IBM by Plae Doe September 11, 2002

IBM 

The only company besides Apple that ever made a decent computer you could buy in a retail store. Now relegated to online sales due to the influx of cheaply made, cheaply priced machines in the retail sector.

I tried to buy an IBM at Best Buy, but the guy sold me an eMachines instead.

IBM by corvus brachyrhynchos July 25, 2003

IBM 

Shorter name for "International Business Machines"

Computers that business's use

IBM by Chris O'donell May 22, 2004

IBM 

Noun - stands for an Individual Butt Mission, which is when one of your boys goes off by himself to a girls house to get with her. Your friend does not go with anyone else and goes to the girls house for the sake of getting with the girl.

Yo see you later bro Im going to run an IBM

IBM by Hunterbizyn July 20, 2023