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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0000051143-03-000024
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	424B3
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		1
FILED AS OF DATE:		20030725

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000051143
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	COMPUTER & OFFICE EQUIPMENT [3570]
		IRS NUMBER:				130871985
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			NY
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		424B3
		SEC ACT:		1933 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	333-37034
		FILM NUMBER:		03803238

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		NEW ORCHARD ROAD
		CITY:			ARMONK
		STATE:			NY
		ZIP:			10504
		BUSINESS PHONE:		9144991900

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		NEW ORCHARD RD
		CITY:			ARMONK
		STATE:			NY
		ZIP:			10504
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                                                         Rule 424(b)(3)
                                             Registration No. 333-37034

                         PRICING SUPPLEMENT NO. 4
                     TO PROSPECTUS DATED June 20, 2000
                      (As supplemented June 22, 2000)

                INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION


                            MEDIUM-TERM NOTES
                            (Fixed Rate Note)

             (Due from one year to 30 years from date of issue )

Designation:  Fixed Rate               Original Issue Date:
Medium-Term Notes Due                  July 28, 2003
November 1, 2006

Principal Amount:  $250,000,000        Maturity Date:
                                       November 1, 2006

Issue Price (as a percentage of        Regular Record Dates:
 Principal Amount):  99.712%           Fifteenth calendar day, whether
                                       or not a Business Day prior to
                                       the corresponding Interest
                                       Payment Date.

Interest Rate:  2.375%                 Interest Payment Dates:
                                       Semi-Annual on November 1 and
					May 1, commencing
					November 1, 2003.

Commission or Discount (as a
percentage of Principal
Amount): 0.175%

CUSIP:  459 20Q ER1                    Redemption Provisions:  None


Form: [X] Book-Entry
      [ ] Certificated


INTRODUCTION

     This is a Pricing Supplement. It describes the Fixed Rate Notes being
issued under the Medium Note Program of International Business Machines
Corporation (the "Company"). This document adds to, or 'supplements' the
description of the Notes referred to in the accompanying Prospectus
Supplement and Prospectus. It does so by providing specific pricing
and other information about the Notes issued in this particular transaction.
This Pricing Supplement also amends the Prospectus Supplement and Prospectus
to the extent that the description of the Notes in this Pricing Supplement
is different from the terms which are set forth in the Prospectus Supplement
and Prospectus.


INTEREST

Interest on the Notes will be calculated based on a year
of 360 days consisting of 12 months of 30 days each.

 If any payment of principal or interest is due on a day that is not a
Business Day, that payment may be made on the next day which is a
Business Day. No additional interest will accrue as a result of the
delay in payment. For purposes of this offering, the term "Business Day"
means each day on which commercial banks and foreign exchange markets
settle payments in The City of New York. We have capitalized a number
of terms in this document. If you do not see a definition for those
terms in this document, those terms will have the meanings which
we have already given to them in the Prospectus Supplement and
the Prospectus.


REDEMPTION

      The Notes are not redeemable by the Company.


PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION


We have entered into a purchase agreement with Deutsche Bank
Securities Inc., J. P. Morgan Securities Inc., Barclays Capital Inc.,
BNP Paribas Securities Corp., and HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.,
 pursuant to which each of them has agreed to purchase the principal
amount of Notes in the following table:

Deutsche Bank Securities Inc
   $112,500,000

J. P. Morgan Securities Inc.
     112,500,000

Barclays Capital Inc.
              8,333,333

BNP Paribas Securities Corp.
       8,333,333
HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.
         8,333,334

 Total:
                         $250,000,000



       These dealers will initially offer the Notes at the
 Issue Price set forth in the Pricing Supplement.  Thereafter,
they may change the offering price and other selling terms.
The dealers named above have also agreed to reimburse
us for certain of our expenses.

Dated:  July 23, 2003

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