Artifact Details

Title

IBM 1440 Data Processing System

Catalog Number

102646595

Type

Still Image

Description

B&W, perspective view of IBM computer system. Two 1311 disk pack drives at right foreground; woman in black dress placing a disk pack in one drive with the cover open/up. IBM 1440 control panel table unit with keyboard/typewriter at left foreground, woman in grey dress sitting at the control panel table. Card reader and printer at far left back. IBM 1441 box shaped unit at center back wall. Raised floor, white tiles. Curtained walls. Verso: "IBM 7000 SERIES (7740) COMM'N 1963 SYSTEM" sideways along left edge in black ink. "#1312", sideways lower left edge in black pencil. "7000 series" sideways at left center edge in light black pencil. Yellow Post-It note in center, "IBM 7000 SERIES (60s) in blue & black ink. [2005-07-25 JJL]

Date

1963 ca.

Publisher

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)

Identifying Numbers

Other number #1312

Dimensions

8 1/8 x 10 in.

Format

Photographic print

Category

Identification photograph; Publicity photograph

Subject

Computer industry--History; IBM 1440 (Computer); IBM 1311 (Storage); Computers--History; Electronic data processing--History; IBM 1441 (Computer)

Credit

Courtesy of Gwen Bell

Lot Number

X7413.2015