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IBM Product Center, the Glossary

IBM Product Center was an American retailer wholly owned by International Business Machines that sold the company's office equipment, which consisted at the time mostly of photocopiers, typewriters and personal computers.^[1]

24 relations: Apple Store, AT&T, Baltimore, Dictation machine, IBM, IBM copier family, IBM Personal Computer, NYNEX, Office supplies, Peripheral, Personal computer, Philadelphia, Photocopier, Point of sale, Price war, Retail, San Francisco, Small office/home office, Tape drive, Tecmar, Telecommunications, Typewriter, William Bogert, Word processor.
1986 mergers and acquisitions
American companies disestablished in 1986
Former IBM subsidiaries
Office supply retailers of the United States
Retail companies disestablished in 1986

Apple Store

The Apple Store is a chain of retail stores owned and operated by Apple Inc. The stores sell, service and repair various Apple products, including Mac desktop and MacBook laptop personal computers, iPhone smartphones, iPad tablet computers, Apple Watch smartwatches, Apple TV digital media players, software, and both Apple-branded and selected third-party accessories.

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AT&T

AT&T Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications holding company headquartered at Whitacre Tower in Downtown Dallas, Texas.

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Baltimore

Baltimore is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland.

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Dictation machine

A dictation machine is a sound recording device most commonly used to record speech for playback or to be typed into print.

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IBM

International Business Machines Corporation (using the trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York and present in over 175 countries.

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IBM copier family

IBM Office Products Division (OPD) manufactured and sold copier equipment and supplies from 1970 till IBM withdrew from the copier market in 1988.

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IBM Personal Computer

The IBM Personal Computer (model 5150, commonly known as the IBM PC) is the first microcomputer released in the IBM PC model line and the basis for the IBM PC compatible ''de facto'' standard.

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NYNEX

NYNEX Corporation was an American telephone company that served five states of New England (Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont) as well as most of the state of New York from January 1, 1984 to August 14, 1997.

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Office supplies

Office supplies are consumables and equipment regularly used in offices by businesses and other organizations, by individuals engaged in written communications, recordkeeping or bookkeeping, janitorial and cleaning, and for storage of supplies or data.

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Peripheral

A peripheral device, or simply peripheral, is an auxiliary hardware device that a computer uses to transfer information externally.

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Personal computer

A personal computer, often referred to as a PC, is a computer designed for individual use.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.

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Photocopier

A photocopier (also called copier or copy machine, and formerly Xerox machine, the generic trademark) is a machine that makes copies of documents and other visual images onto paper or plastic film quickly and cheaply.

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Point of sale

The point of sale (POS) or point of purchase (POP) is the time and place at which a retail transaction is completed.

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Price war

A price war is a form of market competition in which companies within an industry engage in aggressive pricing strategies, “characterized by the repeated cutting of prices below those of competitors”.

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Retail

Retail is the sale of goods and services to consumers, in contrast to wholesaling, which is sale to business or institutional customers.

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San Francisco

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.

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Small office/home office

Small office/home office (or single office/home office; sometimes short SOHO) refers to the category of business or cottage industry that involves from 1 to 10 workers.

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Tape drive

A tape drive is a data storage device that reads and writes data on a magnetic tape.

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Tecmar

Tecmar Inc. was an American manufacturer of personal computer enhancement products based in Solon, Ohio.

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Telecommunications

Telecommunication, often used in its plural form or abbreviated as telecom, is the transmission of information with an immediacy comparable to face-to-face communication.

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Typewriter

A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for typing characters.

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William Bogert

William Bogert (January 24, 1936 – January 12, 2020) was an American character actor best known for his roles as Brandon Brindle on the TV series Small Wonder from 1985 to 1989, Kent Wallace, the host of Chappelle's Shows Frontline spoofs from 2003 to 2004, and as the titular character of the 1964 "Confessions of a Republican" ad.

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Word processor

A word processor (WP) is a device or computer program that provides for input, editing, formatting, and output of text, often with some additional features.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Product_Center