Artifact Details

Title

RCA 501 Computer, brochure

Catalog Number

102646273

Type

Document

Description

The brochure introduces the RCA 501 as an entirely new concept, design, and construction in electronic data processing. The brochure is printed in blue and black on white paper with a full color photograph of a person using the RCA 501 on the front cover. The back cover shows the company logo on a full page blue background. The inside pages show full page, black and white photographs of the computer, people using the computer, and technical applications. Text contents include: Extremely low cost per unit of work...economical expansibility; Compact, reliable, efficient; Easy to install...easy to operate...easy to maintain; Advanced techniques; Expansible... versatile...; Practical pioneering by RCA advances in the science of information handling; RCA-leader in electronic systems.

Date

1959

Publisher

RCA Corporation. Electronic Data Processing

Place of Publication

US

Identifying Numbers

Other number 3J3303

Extent

10 p.

Dimensions

11 x 8 1/2 in.

Copyright Holder

RCA Corporation

Category

Promotional Material

Subject

promotional materials; Radio Corporation of America; Digital computer: mainframe; RCA Corporation. Electronic Data Processing; RCA 501 (Computer); Business; Tape drive; Transistorized; Second-generation computer; Seven dwarfs

Credit

Gift of Thomas J. Buckholtz and Helen T. Buckholtz

Lot Number

X2592.2004