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By today’s standards the tablet was huge. I don’t recall the exact dimensions, but the screen was about 15 inches diagonal, and the whole device was at least 2 inches thick. It required a wired stylus for mouse action, and it likely had a battery life measured in tens of minutes instead of hours, but it was a tablet. It looked surprisingly close to a finished product too, if IBM wanted to it could have released it. For all I know it probably did to some very exclusive customers with very deep pockets.
So, while Steve Jobs and company was playing around with Apple II IBM with battery such as Sony VGP-BPS2A battery , Sony VGP-BPL2 battery , Sony VGP-BPS3 battery , Sony VGP-BPS5 battery , Sony VGP-BPS8 battery , Sony VGP-BPS9 battery , Sony VGP-BPS10 battery , Sony PCG-R505 battery , Sony PCG-V505 battery , Sony PCG-Z505 battery had already created the precursor to the iPad.
Back then IBM’s iconic motto was one word, “Think.” That’s exactly what they did. They solved problems few people even knew existed. They innovated. They created. They thought.
As may glean from the tone of this article, I enjoyed working for IBM. The company has changed a lot over the years, they don’t command the attention they once did, but one thing I believe still holds true for them. They still believe in that one word that keeps them relevant even as other tech companies struggle, think.
So, what else would they call their new iPad app that examines the history and processes of innovation?
The thing about IBM wasn’t so much its products and services as it was its people. At one time IBM employed the highest number of PhDs of any company outside of Los Alamos, and they weren’t just trying to figure out how to write a better program, though there was plenty of that.
IBM’s brain trust, the highest concentration resided at Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, were free to pursue just about anything they wanted. They could tackle world hunger, building space stations, or the sex habits of Blind Mole Rats.
It wasn’t because IBM was so magnanimous in its reward of intelligence. What Big Blue figured was that a train of thought pulls behind it a long list of ideas, and those ideas could be profitable. So the brainy folks got to play and IBM’s R&D warehouse filled with stuff that was years, sometimes decades ahead of current technology, and more often than not, that technology never made it to production or consumers. At least not through IBM.
I’m writing this article on an excellent example of how far ahead IBM’s R&D technology was.