Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation (CTR)

The Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation (CTR)was incorporated by Charles R. Flint on June 16, 1911, as the merger of four companies. CTR was the forerunner of IBM. It was initially located in Endicott, New York a few miles west of Binghamton. In 1911, Hollerith's burgeoning enterprise, Tabulating Machine Company, was one of four businesses that merged to form Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation (CTR). Though the new company's reign under the CTR moniker was brief – just 13 years – it was eminently notable not just for its punch cards but also for the fact that in 1924 it was renamed into something just slightly more familiar – IBM