It began around 1959 as the definition of a high level programming language influenced by the Flow-Matic language developed by UNIVAC and the COMTRAN ( COMmercial TRANslator ) programming language developed by IBM.

An early functional-flavored language was Lisp, developed by John McCarthy while at Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ) for the IBM 700 / 7000 series scientific computers in the late 1950s.

Fortran ( a blend derived from The IBM Mathematical Formula Translating System ) encompasses a lineage of versions, each of which evolved to add extensions to the language while usually retaining compatibility with previous versions.

In late 1953, John W. Backus submitted a proposal to his superiors at IBM to develop a more practical alternative to assembly language for programming their IBM 704 mainframe computer.

IBM Research Labs also developed an extended FORTRAN-based language called " VECTRAN "

" FOR TRANSIT " was the name of a reduced version of the IBM 704 FORTRAN language,

Desktop sized programmable calculators by Hewlett Packard had evolved into the HP 9830 BASIC language computer by 1972, with IBM's releasing its own IBM 5100 in 1975.

KISS is an early low-level programming language on the IBM 650 business computer.

In computing, the KOMPILER was one of the first language compilation and runtime systems for International Business Machines ' IBM 701, the fastest commercial U. S. computer available in 1955.

In addition, IBM once made a deal with Commodore to license Amiga technology for OS / 2 2. 0 and above in exchange for the REXX scripting language.

Programmers of early 1950s computers, notably UNIVAC I and IBM 701, used machine language programs, that is, the first generation language ( 1GL ).

Similarly, IBM wanted a single programming language for all users.

PL / I language was vested initially in the New York Programming Center and later at the IBM UK Laboratory at Hursley.

language and had a role in IBM ’ s process for controlling the language through their PL / I Projects.

* IBM RPG, a native programming language for IBM's System i servers

* SOAP ( Symbolic Optimal Assembly Program ) ( 1957 ) an assembly language for the IBM 650 computer

* SCRIPT ( markup ), a text formatting language developed at IBM

The IBM 5100 portable computer, introduced in 1975, offered an option to execute the System / 360's APL. SV programming language through a hardware emulator.

It was written in assembly language for the IBM 7090.

However, C language programming is much easier to obtain skilled people in, so most if not all new development is done in C. Since z / TPF allows assembler programs to be repackaged into 1 logical file, critical legacy applications can be maintained and actually improve efficiency-the cost of entering one of these programs will now come at the initial enter when the entire program is fetched into core and logical flow through the program is accomplished via simple branch instructions, instead of a dozen or so IBM instructions previously needed to perform what is known as ' core resident enter / back '.

* April – IBM sells the first compiler for the FORTRAN scientific programming language.

The encoding of data by discrete bits was used in the punched cards invented by Basile Bouchon and Jean-Baptiste Falcon ( 1732 ), developed by Joseph Marie Jacquard ( 1804 ), and later adopted by Semen Korsakov, Charles Babbage, Hermann Hollerith, and early computer manufacturers like IBM.

The term word processing was invented by IBM in the late 1960s.

* September 13 – The hard disk drive is invented by an IBM team led by Reynold B. Johnson.

IBM was founded nearby, and Edwin Link invented the flight simulator in the city, leading to a notable concentration of electronics-and defense-oriented firms that continue to exist to this day.

In 1966 DRAM was invented by Dr. Robert Dennard at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center.

IBM invented the cipher-block chaining ( CBC ) mode of operation in 1976.

This new OS was produced in a little more than a year's time and incorporated technology from Carnegie Mellon University: the Mach 2. 5 microkernel ; from IBM, the journaled file system as well as commands and libraries ; from SecureWare secure core components ; from BSD the networking stack ; and a new virtual memory management system invented at OSF.

Like the IBM Stretch computer, ILLIAC II was designed using " future transistors " that had not yet been invented.

ECL was invented in August 1956 at IBM by Hannon S. Yourke.

The process of attaching a magnetic stripe to a plastic card was invented at IBM in 1960 under a contract with the US government for a security system.

* Forrest Parry, the IBM engineer who invented the magnetic stripe card

IBM invented AS400 around 1978

CMOS 9S is the combination of SOI, Low-k dielectric insulation, and Copper interconnect technology, which were invented at IBM research in the mid-1990s.

Also invented there were " bucky bits "-thus, the " Alt " key on every IBM PC is a WAITS legacy.

However, the key combination was revealed to the public when developers found it useful, and at the 20th anniversary of the IBM PC, while on a panel with Bill Gates, Bradley said " I may have invented it ( control-alt-delete ), but I think Bill made it famous ".

Trellis modulation was invented by Gottfried Ungerboeck working for IBM in the 1970s, and first described in a conference paper in 1976 ; but it went largely unnoticed until he published a new detailed exposition in 1982 which achieved sudden widespread recognition.

It was invented by Ian Judd of IBM in 1990.

Steve Russell invented the continuation in his second Lisp implementation for the IBM 704, though he did not name it.

An IBM spokesman, Mac Jeffery, said that the company does license some of his patents, but not for the floppy disk, which they invented on their own.

Originally invented by IBM in 1988, subpixel rendering was first brought to public attention by Microsoft in Windows XP as ClearType, but it was not activated by default until Windows Vista.

* September 13-The hard disk drive is invented by an IBM team led by Reynold B. Johnson.

Both the hard disk drive ( HDD ) and floppy disk drive ( FDD ) were invented by IBM and as such IBM's employees were responsible for many of the innovations in these products and their technologies.

The ECL family, ECL is also known as current-mode logic ( CML ), was invented by IBM as current steering logic for use in the transistorized IBM 7030 Stretch computer, where it was implemented using discrete components.