Artifact Details

Title

IBM 7090 Data Processing System

Catalog Number

102646611

Type

Still Image

Description

B&W, perspective view of IBM 7090 Data Processing System in a "glass house," raised computer room floor, dark patterned tiles. Control Panel table left foreground, back of man in suit leaning over control panel. Right side a tape storage unit, right background 5 tape storage units with a woman standing in front of one of the tape storage units. RAMAC disk storage unit at left back wall. Box unit with window at just left of center. Light, flat wall on left; vertical blinds at right back wall. Verso: "3112" diagonally at lower right edge in light black pencil. "7090 data Processing Sys 1958" , diagonally at center in light black pencil. "P2064 -" in black pencil, sideways at center left edge. "p3" in black ballpoint at upper right corner edge.

Date

1960 ca.

Photographer

Public Relations Photo Service

Publisher

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)

Place of Publication

Holmdel, NJ, US

Identifying Numbers

Other number 3112
Other number P2064
Other number p3

Dimensions

7 3/4 x 10 in.

Format

Photographic print

Category

Identification photograph; Publicity photograph

Subject

Computer industry--History; Computers--History; Electronic data processing--History

Credit

Courtesy of Gwen Bell

Lot Number

X7413.2015