About Lenovo/IBM: Although IBM was incorporated in the state of New York on June 15, 1911 as the Computing- Tabulating- Recording Company (C-T-R), you can trace their history all the way back to 1888. Over the course of the last 120 years IBM has reinvented itself numerous times. Creating household names, among those the IBM ThinkPad laptops & notebooks, which are most renowned. In 2006-2007 IBM sold its ThinkPad Laptops and Think Centre Systems business and brand to Lenovo. Lenovo has continued manufacturing the original IBM ThinkPad Laptops and Think Centre Systems.