ENDICOTT, N.Y. -- Reunited and it feels so good.

"It feels like a family reunion, being with people who've had such a common experience," museum docent and former IBM worker Carol Pogust said. "When you're together at IBM, you're sharing stressful times, happy times, sad times, and that's why they become like family."

That's the feeling former IBM workers felt at the company's history and heritage museum at the first IBM Endicott workers' reunion.

"I found the advertisement of the reunion and I had not been down to this museum and I thought this would be a good opportunity to see things," former IBM worked Caldin Palmer said.

Whether you worked at IBM 20 years ago or 50 years ago, everyone shared a special connection.

"I'm part of an IBM family," museum executive director and former IBM worker Marlene Yacos said. "My father worked there for 44 ears. He started before the war and he went off to war and came back and that's where he met mother, in the IBM cafeteria."

Employees say the goal of the reunion is to reconnect, promote local history and encourage entrepreneurship in the community.

"Bring the pride back to the community," reunion coordinator and former IBM employee Jamies Little said. "IBM has a rich history, everything they've accomplished, how they changed the world. I think it's very inspiring to entrepreneurs. I want to help expand on that. A lot of time through inspired history, you can do that."

For many of the visitors, it feels like a step back into time, a step filled with a lot of special memories.

"One time, I was running along and all of a sudden this entourage in front of me, coming at me and it was Thomas Watson Jr.," Palmer said. "I never saw him before."

Watson was a former president of the company.

While employees recalled memorable moments, they were in awe about how far technology has come.

"Then, you look at a whole room filled with computers and now it's on your wrist," said Palmer.

"It's hard to imagine that this whole room is now condensed down to a little button," said Yacos.

A little button inspired by a big family.