Historical clue formulations

• Early giant in punch-card tabulating systems — 2026-09-26
• Tech giant founded in 1911 — 2026-05-04
• "Big Blue" — 2026-03-08
• Company that made the world's first two-nanometer chip in 2021 — 2025-11-29
• Computing company whose logo has remained largely the same since it was introduced by Paul Rand in 1962 — 2025-04-27
• Maker of the world's largest quantum computer — 2025-04-02
• Tech giant whose initials are its N.Y.S.E. symbol — 2025-03-09
• Company nicknamed "Big Blue" — 2025-01-13
• Pioneer in computer chess — 2024-07-28
• Company that once generated more than 4,000 patents in a single year — 2024-06-23
• Company featured in the documentary "Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine" — 2023-11-23
• Tech giant dubbed "Big Blue" — 2023-10-16
• "Nobody ever got fired for buying ___" (old business saying) — 2023-07-30
• Makers of Deep Blue, the first computer to beat a world chess champion under tournament conditions — 2022-11-05
• Big name in artificial intelligence — 2022-10-04
• Big name in cloud computing — 2022-06-19
• Creator of Watson on "Jeopardy!" — 2021-05-10
• Company with the most U.S. patents per year since 1993 — 2020-12-12
• Company nicknamed Big Blue — 2020-11-10
• Company nicknamed "Big Blue" — 2020-02-03
• Company behind the Watson project — 2020-01-13
• Co. in the Dow Jones index since 1979 — 2019-12-24
• Company that pioneered the U.P.C. bar code — 2019-07-08
• Watson's creator — 2019-07-07
• Big name in cloud computing — 2018-11-14
• Watson's company — 2018-09-02
• *Shakespearean prince — 2018-07-19
• Floppy disk creator — 2018-07-06
• Watson's company — 2018-05-20
• "Big Blue" — 2017-09-05
• Pioneer in computer chess — 2017-07-23
• 49-Down, with each letter shifted one place later in the alphabet (coincidence?) — 2016-10-16
• Watson's creator — 2016-06-12
• Terminal giant, once — 2016-05-14
• "Let's Build a Smarter Planet" co. — 2016-04-25
• Tech giant with a striped blue logo — 2016-02-29
• Tech giant known as Big Blue — 2015-11-23
• Co. that invented the floppy disk — 2015-10-11
• Original ThinkPad manufacturer — 2015-08-25
• Big Blue on the stock mkt. — 2015-07-14
• Co. that developed the ThinkPad — 2015-05-04
• "Smarter Planet" co. — 2015-04-01
• Corporate giant co-founded by Thomas Watson — 2014-03-07
• Co. with the motto "Think" — 2013-12-31
• Watson's creator — 2013-10-05
• Big name in storage — 2013-09-13
• Watson's creator — 2012-07-11
• It has many servers — 2012-05-13
• Watson's creator — 2012-05-02
• One of the 30 Dow Jones industrials — 2011-10-13