On: IBM is splitting itself into two public companies

[rusk]

At 45 I guess they were expanding into Europe.

[GnarfGnarf → rusk]

Yep, selling Hollerith card equipment to Germany in the 30's and 40's.

[mulmen → GnarfGnarf]

That math doesn’t work out. IBM was formed in 1911. 45 years old would be 1956.

Also doing business in Europe in the 1930s doesn’t mean that’s when they expanded. That business could have been decades old by then.

Some quick reading of the history of IBM and subsidiaries suggests they were doing business in Europe by the 1920s.