IBM 1401 Archive Pics

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Toronto Data Center - Courtesy IBM Corp - Photographer George Dunbar "IBM Canada's photographer (1957 to 1989)"

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Hi Robert, Using the hint that this pic is from IBM Toronto, I noted that there's a reflection in the glass that says "SHERATON ARD IN" [backwards]. After staring and pondering for a spell, something clicked and I came up with KING EDWARD SHERATON. According to this olde tyme photo [http://www.flickr.com/photos/hollywoodplace/5966759965/] the Kind Edward Sheraton was at 37 King Street E. Circling back, it seems IBM Canada maintained an office on King Street E. "Prior to 1951, IBM Canada offices were located on 300 Campbell Avenue and Dupont Street in the city of Toronto's west end.[1] The plant is now home to Wayspa's Canadian operations (as 298 Campbell Avenue). During this period, and well into the 1950s, the company also maintained a downtown office suite located on King Street East immediately opposite the entrance to the famous "King Eddie" Hotel." <----see the guest list at this link! Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Canada_Head_Office_Building Anyway, I offer this as further evidence the showroom depicted is indeed at IBM Toronto. Cheers, Dag Dag/Robert I reckon that just about proves it. Google Earth shows that the King Edward Hotel at 57 King Street E is now part of the Meridien chain. Right opposite, if it wasn't for the Shred-It truck parked at the kerbside, you'd be able to see that the Data Centre is now a Sushi restaurant. The pillars and first floor windows are those depicted in the colour picture from Kevin Maney's Pioneering the Science of Information. Well done indeed. for further picture comments and credits, click here

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Datamobile_WorldFair_ Atomium_Brussels_Sept1960	Datamobile_Vatican_ Rear_June1960	Datamobile_Vatican_ June_1960	Datamobile_Salon Mecanographie_ Brussels_Sept1960	Datamobile_Montdes Arts_Brussels _Sept1960
Datamobile_Model _1960	Datamobile_Dock _1960	Datamobile_Copenhagen _Aug1960	Datamobile_Coloseum _Rome_June1960	Datamobile_Belgian _Ferry_Sept1960
Unloading at Helsinki-1964	Datamobile_Zurich_ Sept1960

1401_ManufacturingTestSystems - Endicott Manufacturing Photos 1965

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1401 Manufacturing Test Systems - 1401 Manufacturing Testing Lab Pics - Oct 1962

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1401 Marketing Press Release Pics

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Mkting729Tape SysMan	Mkting1405Disk 7330TapeSys	Mkting1405Disk Sys	Mkting1407Console 1311DiskSys
Mkting1407Console7330 Tape1405DiskSys M&W	Mkting1428Optical ReaderSysWoman	Mktting1311Disk Sys	Mktting1428Optical ReaderSy
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Mkting_7330Tape_ 1311Disk_1407Console_April1962	Model_MOS for textiles_Clemson College_Nov1961	CPU_1406ExtendedStorage	LongPrintout_M&W
Markting_Chain_ WhirLing Chain_ Oct1959	Data Processing System-1959	1401 + 1311 image

1401 Marketing Press Release Pics - 1401 Satellite Comm Pics

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1401 Marketing Press Release Pics - Restored Marketing System Pics

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1401 Production Pics

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Maurice Papo Pics

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from Charles Morrison

to Qatar Petroleum from Frankfurt

from Simon Barratt, UK
Laurel House, The Green, Tredington, Shipston on Stour, Warwickshire, CV364NJ, UNITED KINGDOM
Only pre-360 images provided here

London Data Centre -1968	Printer Layout pad	another Printer Layout pad	Service Bureau Booklet UK Form 22-6107 12 page, 1.5 MByte 12 page, 12 MByte
Data Center Booklet UK Form 22-6101 12 pages, 14 MByte	Ever Onward 12 MBytes	Songs of the IBM 1.3 MBytes
Electromatic 1 MByte	ASCC 3.5 MBytes	Unmarked-01 1.7 MBytes	STRETCH in Factory 370 KBytes
IBM-702-DP-System-1953 400KBytes	HarvardMark-1 500 KBytes	IBM-Type-1-Printing-Tabulator-1921 1 MBytes	IBM-Type-4-DirectSubtractAccountingMachine-1928 2 MBytes
IBM-513-Reproducer-1933 800 KBytes	IBM-405-Tabulator-Maybe 700 KBytes	IBM-405-Tabulator-Maybe-Annotated.jpg 800 KBytes	077 collator (1936) Dev for SocSecurity 080 Card Sortor (1925) 2.2 MBytes
CTR-4-Units - 1914 1.9 MBytes	<= left - Manual Card Punch - Hand Gang Punch - Vertical Sorter (1908) - Five Counter Tabulator (non-printing)	Seven-Bank 1.8 MBytes	<= left Seven bank printing and listing machine with 4 superimposed counters, subtracting feature, and card summany punch (Electricity Supply Board, June 1932)
HollerithMachine (1890 ?) 2.7 MBytes	HollerithSorter-w-panel 2.9 MBytes	VerticalCardSorter (1908) 2.9 MBytes	ENIAC.jpg 5.6 MBytes \

and a section from page 28 of "Data Systems" - there appears to be missing clippings - "The data processing world is older than one usually thinks. The Prudential Assurance Company installed their first punch card machines in 1914." (Note everyone is standing) 4.1 MBytes (Note everyone is standing) 2.4 MBytes [Simon Barratt says "And when I worked in the Service Bureau/Data Centre, we had no chairs except during coffee (yes, coffee) break."] and ;-)) BTW, did you hear that one of the first 1401 CPUs to be imported into the UK came to a rather sticky end? As it was being fork-lifted off the aircraft, it fell off and landed on a corner. The engineers managed to repair it and it spent the rest of its days in the IBM UK Test Centre in the basement of the Newman Street office where it was used by 1401 customers to test their software before their machines were delivered. The only evidence of its misadventure was that, instead of being square, it had a slight parallelogram look.

1401 at user site in Italy - from Franco Fellico' < franco@ffellico.com >

"enhanced", original	{bad link} web page with comment "Qui � ben visibile una fila di unit� nastro e sulla destra, ancora parzialmente imballata, � l'unit� centrale di un 1401."
"enhanced", original	{bad link} web page with comment "Ed ora in posa vicino all'altro 1401"

1401 at a site in France, fish-eye view, from Maurice Papo

An IBM 1401 computer in La Gaude with an IBM 7090, ( the big machine in the background )

1401 at Hanover Fair 1960 from Chuck Branscomb

... a picture of the 1401 taken in April 1960 at the Hanover Fair. My wife and I were there (that is her in the picture ) and my recollection is that this was taken while the system was being checked out the day before the fair started. This system was our engineering model used for announcement testing and I did not want to send it to Europe but Dick Watson insisted. As you know, engineering models are not exactly "up to spec" in many areas and I was also concerned that shipping it overseas in its somewhat fragile state would result in damage causing demonstration problems. Fortunately the system performed flawlessly throughout the Fair and was a big hit with the Europeans. I should note that IBM Germany send over technicians which we trained to service the system and they did an outstanding job. A few days after the Fair, I was called by IBM Netherlands saying they had a problem with the system, were installed for demonstration in a CUSTOMER'S office (much to my surprise), and needed help. We put our best person on the plane to help but they corrected the problem before he arrived.

Picture Comments

From: Robert Garner Subject: Re: [re: Toronto photos on archive page] Date: December 1, 2012 at 5:58:35 PM PST To: Paul Lasewicz Hi Paul, My thought was to mark these images on our 1401 web site: "Photo Courtesy of IBM Archives. Photographer George Dunbar." Is there enough credit and good will to share on these old historic images? I'm glad he found us and had two more 1401 images. Robert On Dec 1, 2012, at 1:56 PM, Paul Lasewicz wrote: Hi! Thanks. FYI, if he was IBM's photographer, he has no rights in these images - all rights belong to IBM. If he was hired as a contractor hired to take photos, then he might - depends on the contract.  Cheers!  P~  Paul C. Lasewicz IBM Corporate Archivist Find IBM History online at www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history "History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth." E. L. Doctorow  From: Ed Thelen Subject: RE: Toronto photos on archive page Date: December 1, 2012 at 10:37:27 PM PST To: Robert Garner, Paul Lasewicz > Is there enough credit and good will to share on these old historic images?  As the most rank amateur on this distribution list - I propose that there are separate issues present: The factoid of who did/managed/controlled/financed/…    the work/activity/... resulting in "something" -    This factoid is of possible historical and personal interest - The entity which owns the right to: a) control usage/distribution of "something"     possibly called "intellectual property" - b) collect gain from the control/sale of a) above   ( the above wording is a little loose, but so are many things - even/especially (unread?) laws 1,300 pages long ;-)) Another possibly open question is:    can entity 2) above     also control the distribution of factoid 1) above. There may be a need to get an opinion from someone    - expert in the field -    ? always open to challenge in court ?? yet again ??? Simon From: Robert Garner Subject: Re: [re: Toronto photos on archive page] Date: December 1, 2012 at 12:26:30 PM PST To: George Dunbar George, Thanks for these wonderful 1401 images! Both are new to us - I particularly like the manufacturing pic, which shows a 1311 based system being built. Like the Toronto data centre pics, I assume they were taken for IBM? (so they may even reside in IBM's archives somewhere..) May I ask for your permission to post them with our other 1401 pics? We would acknowledge you as the photographer (and do same for the Toronto data center pics). Best Wishes, Robert From: George Dunbar Subject: Re: [re: Toronto photos on archive page] Date: December 1, 2012 at 1:12:50 PM PST To: Robert Garner  Robert, Yes, they were taken for IBM but I doubt that they will be easily found in any IBM archive. I'd be pleased to have them used on your "IBM 1401 Restoration" web site. Photo credits will be appreciated. Please let me know the page address so that I will be able to view the photos. Regards, George From: Robert Garner  Subject: Fwd: [re: Toronto photos on archive page] Date: December 1, 2012 at 1:19:48 PM PST To: Paul Lasewicz Paul, The photographer that took the wonderful pic of the Toronto Data Centre contacted us, George Dunbar, emails below. Robert There is the opinion that law is written    by and for attorneys Certainly not underpaid overstressed amateurs and jurors. Modern Life can be so complicated -    Back 100,000 years ago, "we" had other ?simpler? pressing problems,    such as being chased by cave bears and leopards Offered by Ed ( your most humble bumbling servant ) Thelen P.S. ;-)) From: Paul Lasewicz Subject: Re: [re: Toronto photos on archive page] Date: December 2, 2012 at 5:48:01 AM PST To: Robert Garner Hi! Yes, of course. I'd just say Courtesy of IBM Corporation ... no need to mention archives.  Cheers!  P~  From: Susan Sherwood Subject: Re: Two new 1401 era pics (was Fwd: [re: Toronto photos on archive page]) Date: December 2, 2012 at 10:22:14 PM PST To: Robert Garner  Robert I'll double check with the 1440 team, but I think the mainframe in the foreground of the picture is an IBM 1440. I suspect the typewriter/printer console in the front right corner is not an IBM 1447, but possibly. We discovered in putting together the displays for the 1440 event that Endicott's printed circuit manufacturing (SMS, SLT, perhaps later) used three IBM 1440 to control the processing. Also, in the 1930s, IBM performed early environmental testing of durability in the freezers of the Ice Cream Factory where the TechWorks! Prototype Workshop is located. A slab of the SMS card single layer cake for you and the 1401 team is on hold in my freezer, while I figure out how best to get it to California. Best regards, Susan