No company of the twentieth century achieved greater success and engendered more admiration respect envy fear and hatred than ibm building ibm tells the story of that company how it was formed how it grew and how it shaped and dominated the information processing industry. The emergence of the computer industry is one of the great episodes in this history of technology but it is one whose pre pc history is known to few building ibm is a lively objective and instructive introduction to one of the most important chapters in the rise of the age of information. Building ibm tells the story of that company how it was formed how it grew and how it shaped and dominated the information processing industry emerson pugh presents substantial new material about the company in the period before 1945 as well as a new interpretation of the postwar eragranted unrestricted access to ibms archival records and with no constraints on the way he chose to . Building ibm tells the story of that company how it was formed how it grew and how it shaped and dominated the information processing industry emerson pugh presents substantial new material. Building ibm shaping an industry and its technology by emerson w pugh cambridge mass mit press 1995 xvi 403 pp illustrations tables charts notes and