Big Blue returns from the deep as IBM shares revisit '87 record.

Declares that computer maker International Business Machines has capped its recovery on May 13, 1997 from its near-death experience in the early 1990s. Graph featuring IBM's long struggle back from 1987 to its present high; IBM's downturn which had prompted the resignation of John F. Akers and the hiring of Louis V. Gerstner Jr. to succeed him; Gerstner's memo to employees which cheered the stock rise.