Once upon a time, IBM branch offices ruled the computing world

IEEE Annals of the History of Computing | IEEE Computer Society By Lori Cameron and Michael Martinez

“Now a researcher recovers this lost chapter of tech

“Long before Apple, Google, Amazon and Microsoft, there was IBM and its international network of branch offices. IBM’s 800 branch offices in 170 countries were the computing industry’s early empire, spearheading the firm’s explosive growth worldwide for over a century. To be a manager of a “B/O”—as branch offices …