RULE 424(b)(3)
REGISTRATION NO. 333-40669
PRICING SUPPLEMENT NO. 7
TO PROSPECTUS DATED December 10, 1997
(As supplemented December 12, 1997)
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
MEDIUM-TERM NOTES
(Floating Rate Note)
(Due One Year or More from date of issue)
Designation: Floating Rate Original Issue Date:
Medium-Term Notes Due June 1, 1999 June 1, 1998
Principal Amount: $100,000,000 Maturity Date:
June 1, 1999
Issue Price (as a percentage of Regular Record Dates:
Principal Amount): 100% Fifteenth calendar day
whether or not a
Interest Rate Base: LIBOR Business Day prior to
the corresponding
Spread: MINUS 0.20% Interest Payment Date
Initial Interest Rate: 5.4875% Interest Payment Dates:
September 1, 1998,
Redemption Provisions: None December 1, 1998,
March 1, 1999,
Commission or Discount (as and June 1, 1999
a percentage of Principal
Amount): 0.00%
Interest Reset Dates:
CUSIP: 459 20Q AY0 September 1, 1998
December 1, 1998 and
March 1, 1999
Index Maturity: 3 months
Designated LIBOR Page: Telerate Page 3750 Interest Reset Period:
Quarterly
Interest Determination
Dates: Second London
Banking Day preceding
each Interest Reset Date
Form:[X] Book-Entry
[_] Certificated
This is a Pricing Supplement. It describes the Floating Rate Notes now
being issued under the Medium Term Note Program of International Business
Machines Corporation. This document adds to, or 'supplements' the description of
the Notes referred to in the accompanying Prospectus Supplement and
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Prospectus by providing specific information about the Notes being issued in
this particular transaction. It also amends the Prospectus Supplement and
Prospectus to the extent it is not consistent with the terms which are set forth
in the Prospectus Supplement and Prospectus.
INTEREST
These are Floating Rate Notes. As 'Floating Rate' Notes, the amount of
Interest payable on the Notes changes, or 'floats' in the following manner: The
Notes will bear interest at a rate which is reset on each of the Interest Reset
Dates listed in this Pricing Supplement. The interest rate in effect from the
Original Issue Date to the first Interest Reset Date for the Notes will be the
Initial Interest Rate we have specified in this Pricing Supplement. Thereafter,
the interest rate on the Notes for each Interest Reset Period will be determined
at the rate for three (3) month LIBOR minus a 'Spread' of twenty basis points
(0.20%).
Interest on the Notes will be calculated based on the actual number of
days elapsed over a year of 360 days. The Calculation Agent for the Notes will
be The Chase Manhattan Bank.
If any Interest Payment Date or any Interest Reset Date would otherwise be
a day that is not a Business Day, such date will be postponed to the next day
that is a Business Day. However, if that day falls in the next calendar month,
since this is a LIBOR Note, the Interest Payment Date or Interest Reset Date
will be advanced to the first preceding day that is a Business Day.
For purposes of this offering, a "Business Day" means any day on which
commercial banks and foreign exchange markets settle payments in The City of New
York, and is a day on which dealings in deposits in U.S. Dollars are transacted
in the London interbank market (a 'London Banking Day').
Other capitalized terms which are used but which are not defined in this
Pricing Supplement have the meanings assigned to them in the accompanying
Prospectus Supplement and Prospectus.
PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION
The Notes will be sold to Goldman Sachs & Co. for resale to one or more
investors at varying prices related to prevailing market conditions at the time
of resale.
Dated: May 27, 1998
