List of IBM products


The following is a partial list of products, services, and subsidiaries of International Business Machines Corporation and its predecessor corporations, beginning in the 1890s.
This list is ; it includes, for example, the AN/FSQ-7, which was not a product in the sense of offered for sale, but was a product in the sense of manufactured—produced by the labor of IBM. Several machines manufactured for the Astronomical Computing Bureau at Columbia University are included, as are some machines built only as demonstrations of IBM technology. Missing are RPQs, OEM products, and supplies. These products and others are missing simply because no one has added them.
IBM sometimes uses the same number for a system and for the principal component of that system. For example, the IBM 604 Calculating Unit is a component of the IBM 604 Calculating Punch. And different IBM divisions used the same model numbers; for example IBM 01 without context clues could be a reference to a keypunch or to IBM's first electric typewriter.
Number sequence may not correspond to product development sequence. For example, the 402 tabulator was an improved, modernized, 405.
IBM uses two naming structures for its modern hardware products. Products are normally given a three- or four-digit machine type and a model number. A product may also have a marketing or brand name. For instance, 2107 is the machine type for the IBM System Storage DS8000. While the majority of products are listed here by machine type, there are instances where only a marketing or brand name is used. Care should be taken when searching for a particular product as sometimes the type and model numbers overlap. For instance the IBM storage product known as the Enterprise Storage Server is machine type 2105, and the IBM printing product known as the IBM Infoprint 2105 is machine type 2705, so searching for an IBM 2105 could result in two different products—or the wrong product—being found.
IBM introduced the 80-column rectangular hole punched card in 1928. Pre-1928 machine models that continued in production with the new 80-column card format had the same model number as before. Machines manufactured prior to 1928 were, in some cases, retrofitted with 80-column card readers and/or punches thus there existed machines with pre-1928 dates of manufacture that contain 1928 technology.
This list is organized by classifications of both machines and applications, rather than by product name. Thus some entries will be duplicated. The 1420, for example, is listed both as a member of the 1401 family and as a machine for Bank and finance.
IBM product names have varied over the years; for example these two texts both reference the same product.
This article uses the name, or combination of names, most descriptive of the product. Thus the entry for the above is
Products of The Tabulating Machine Company can be identified by date, before 1933 when the subsidiaries were merged into IBM.

Unit record equipment

Keypunches and verifiers

402 and known versions
404
405 and known versions
407 and known versions
IBM manufactured a range of clocks and other devices until 1958 when they sold the Time Equipment Division to Simplex Time Recorder Company. See:
Collators :
IBM also sold a range of copier supplies including paper rolls, cut sheet paper and toner.
The IBM line of Copier/Duplicators, and their associated service contracts, were sold to Eastman Kodak in 1988.

World War II ordnance and related products

For these computers most components were unique to a specific computer and are shown here immediately following the computer entry.
Further information: IBM mainframe, IBM minicomputer.

IBM 1400 series: 1240, 1401, 1410, 1420, 1440, 1450, 1460, 7010

Computers based on SLT or discrete IC CPUs (1964–1989)


Computers

Punched card and paper tape equipment

IBM announced a range of Microfilm products in 1964 and withdrew them in 1969.

Core storage

In IBM's terminology beginning with the System/360 disk and such devices featuring short access times were collectively called DASD. The IBM 2321 Data Cell is a DASD that used tape as its storage medium. See also history of IBM magnetic disk drives.

Airline reservation systems

Some software listings are for software families, not products.
Some IBM software products were distributed free. The term "Program Product" was used by IBM to denote that it's freely available but not for free. Prior to June 1969, the majority of software packages written by IBM were available at no charge to IBM customers; with the June 1969 announcement, new software not designated as "System Control Programming" became Program Products, although existing non-system software remained available for free.

Operating systems

IBM distributes its diverse collection of software products over several brands; mainly:
  1. IBM's own branding for many software products originally developed in-house;
  2. Lotus: collaboration and communication;
  3. Rational: software development and maintenance;
  4. Tivoli: management, operations, and Cloud;
  5. WebSphere: Internet.
  6. Watson Main article: IBM Watson
The Watson Customer Engagement business unit supports marketing, commerce, and supply chain software development and product offerings for IBM. Software and solutions offered as part of these three portfolios by WCE are as follows:
Watson Marketing Portfolio