There's also a business version of the Cassiopeia called the E-125, available only in silver, and it takes any Type II compact flash card, including IBM's new 1GB Microdrive.

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For example, using the zEnterprise System with the zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension and IBM zEnterprise Unified Resource Manager, a financial services company managing credit card transactions on the mainframe using an IBM blade optimized for analytics can gain insights from the information in seconds.

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Outside the exhibit stands the company's achievement wall -- showing off IBM's humble beginnings as a punch card clock company and ending with Watson.

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In 1935 IBM landed a contract to tabulate employment for the Social Security system and put those dusty punch-card machines to work.

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The biggest takeaway is just how many achievements IBM has actually has been a part of -- everything from typewriters and the modern day credit card magnetic strip, to the computing power behind the Apollo space mission.

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