Computer History Museum

IBM computer data retrieval and storage room

This is a faded color image of a large computer data storage room with three unidentified IBM terminals, several magnetic tape reader machines, and rows of magnetic tapes on shelves and racks. One person is sitting down in the foreground with his back towards the camera. Six other people are standing in the background in one of the data storage rack rows. Light source is coming from the overhead ceiling. There is a bar code label "102622929" from the Computer History Museum affixed to the bottom left side of image which is unused nor valid.

Item Details

Type
Still Image
Catalogue number
102657018
Organization
International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) (Publisher)
Category
Identification Photograph
Publicity Photograph
Format
Photographic Print
Credit line
Courtesy of Gwen Bell
Acquisition number
X7413.2015
Subject
Computer Industry--History, Computers--History, Electronic Data Processing--History, International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)