IBM spent $5 billion during the decade to develop a family of computers designed so growing businesses could easily upgrade. It introduced the magnetic hard drive in1956 and the floppy disk in 1971.

IBM Corp. is wringing new profit from old goods by refurbishing leased computers or cannibalizing them for parts when they’re turned in. At a hangar-like facility near Raleigh, N.C., truckloads ...

IBM on Wednesday will announce that it has opened the first facility in China to refurbish and resell old computer servers, a market expected to grow to $2 billion in that country by 2014. For ...

Those were interesting times, back in the early 80s. In 1981, IBM launched its Personal Computer — the IBM PC, as it became known. This was the machine that changed the world of computing forever.

IBM Corp. and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have teamed up to tackle a major challenge facing computers: teaching machines to recognize images and sounds as people do, and react in ...