Computer History Museum

RCA 501 Electronic Data Processing System

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.

Item Details

Date
1959 (Made)
Type
Document
Catalogue number
102646273
Other identifying number
3J3303 (OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER)
Organization
RCA Corporation. Electronic Data Processing (Publisher)
Category
Promotional Material
Credit line
Gift of Thomas J. Buckholtz and Helen T. Buckholtz
Extent
10 p.
Place of publication
North America/USA
Language
English
Acquisition number
X2592.2004
Subject
Digital Computer: Mainframe, Promotional Materials, Business, Tape Drive, Transistorized, Second-Generation Computer, Seven Dwarfs