By Matthew Stolle
Publication Date: 2026-01-20 12:45:00
ROCHESTER — There has always been a mystique about IBM Rochester, an abiding curiosity about what goes on within its big blue walls.
Many people know how Big Blue transformed Rochester. Perhaps less well known is how its discoveries and inventions changed the world.
Supercomputers like Blue Jean and Roadrunner.
Microprocessors that became the brains for XBox, Wii and Playstation.
The AS/400, a revolutionary computer system and technological workhorse (It sold 200,000 of these bad boys within four years of its unveiling).
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