Artifact Details

Title

Elecom "50" advertisement

Catalog Number

102646271

Type

Document

Description

The brochure presents the Elecom "50" computer as a simplified electronic digital accounting machine that has accuracy, simplicity, flexibility and low-cost. The brochure is printed in yellow, red, blue, and black on white paper and opens in window shutters fashion to a four-page centerfold. The front coverpage shows an abstract design of electrons spinning in orbits around a nucleus and the company logo. The back cover shows a black and white photograph of the computer and the company logo. The theme of spinning atoms is contphinued through the brochure in the graphics. The inside centerfold shows a two-page, black and white photograph of a person using the computer in an office setting. The side pages show black and white photographs of computer hardware. Text contents include: Elecom "50" the simplified electronic digital computer; Elecom "50" electronic digital computer accounting machine; Payroll with Elecom "50"; Elecom "50" low-cost digital computer specifications. The name Donald S. McBrien is stamped at the top and at the center of the bottom of the right inside page.

Date

1956

Publisher

Underwood Corporation. Electronic Computer Division

Place of Publication

U.S.

Identifying Numbers

Other number EL50-55

Extent

6 p.

Dimensions

11 x 8 1/2 in.

Copyright Holder

Underwood Corporation. Electronic Computer Division

Category

Promotional Material

Subject

Business applications; Digital computer: other; Underwood Corporation. Electronic Computer Division; Elecom "50" (Computer); accounting applications; magnetic drum; Vacuum tubes

Lot Number

X3067.2005