Mr. Bob (Boe) Overton Evans
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(b.) - ?1927 August 19
Bio/Description
Persuaded IBM?s chairman, Thomas J. Watson Jr., to discontinue the company?s development of a hodgepodge of incompatible computers and instead to embark on the development of a single product line of general-purpose, compatible computers. Until then, researchers thought that the fields of scientific computing and commercial data processing each required their own type of special-purpose computer. Compatibility would ensure that the same software could run on any model of the product line, avoiding a re-programming of software.
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Date of Birth:
1927 August 19 -
Gender:
Male -
Noted For:
At IBM led the groundbreaking development of compatible computers that changed the industry -
Category of Achievement:
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