IBM Customer Engineering Reference Manual, IBM 650 Data-Processing System
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content: 1957-1958
name: label: maker
content: IBM
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content: IBM
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content: This red notebook contains the "IBM Customer Engineering Reference Manual" describing "Preventive Maintenance & Adjustments" for the IBM 650 data-processing system It is specifically intended for "Machine number 650 10886". In front of the title page is a sheet of cards giving a "mailing list record" for the machine. The first card has been sent in. The receipt indicates that the machine had serial number 650-10886 MX, and was associated with the N.Y. Uptown Office. It is dated 10/31/57. Remaining cards on the record are blank and still present. In front of this is a log listing service to the machine from 10/31/57 to 1/3/58. The serial number is again 650-10886-MX and the customer is listed as Standard Oil, Room 20, Concourse, U.S. Rubber Building, 6th Avenue.
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content: The document came to the Smithsonian with an IBM 650 computer that was manufactured in Endicott, New York, in October, 1957, shipped on June 10, 1958, to what was then the Carpenter Steel Company in Reading, Pennsylvania, began operating June 20, 1958, and ran at Carpenter until its retirement in November, 1968.The serial number for the console unit and the power unit is listed on documentation received with the machine as 10886. Hence it seems likely that before the IBM 650 now in the NMAH collections went to Carpenter in 1958 it spent a brief time at Standard Oil in the U.S. Rubber Building in New York City.
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content: Reference:
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content: Accession file 306013, National Museum of American History.
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content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Carpenter Technology Corporation
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content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CI.306013.17
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content: 306013.17
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content: 306013
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Documentation
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 cm x 25 cm x 29.8 cm; 1 3/16 in x 9 27/32 in x 11 23/32 in