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蓝色巨人IBM屹立百年,秘诀不在于设备和软件,而在于其和谐的客户关系在位于纽约阿曼克(Armonk)的IBM总部,有一条长长的通道连接大楼两翼,这条通道给“走过记忆的长廊”(a walk down memory lane)这句话赋予了新的含意。从穿孔卡到磁带再到记忆芯片,自现代计算设备诞生以来出现过的所有储存媒介,都在这条长长的通道里以实物或照片的形式展出。在这栋纽约市以北一小时车程的大楼内,还可以找到其他的早期计算机产品。如,一台有上百个按
IBM, a blue giant, has been around for 100 years. The secret is not equipment and software, but its harmonious customer relationship. At the IBM headquarters in Armonk, New York, there is a long channel connecting the two wings of the building, The phrase “a walk down memory lane” gives new meaning. From punch cards to tapes to memory chips, all the storage media that has emerged since the birth of modern computing devices is displayed in this long channel in physical or photographic form. Within this one-hour drive north of New York City, other early computer products can be found. For example, a Taiwan has hundreds of press