Artifact Details

Title

IBM RISC - Man working on an IBM RT 6151 model 10 personal computer

Catalog Number

102657024

Type

Still Image

Description

This is a black and white image of a man sitting in an office working on an IBM 6151 model 10 personal computer. He is wearing a shirt and tie and pointing his left hand at the display while his right hand is holding a pen. The IBM 6154 display has a graphic chart on screen called "Shewhart Control Chart". There is two-button mouse near his right hand. The light is coming from overhead. The press release sheet that is taped on verso side of image states "FOR RELEASE: Immediate FROM: IBM Corporation Information Systems Group 900 King Street Rye Rock, NY 10573 HIGH-SPEED, TECHNICAL PROFESSIONAL WORKSTATION: The IBM RT Personal Computer 6151 model 10, shown here with the new 14-inch IBM 6154 advanced color graphics display and new two-button mouse, is the desktop version of IBM's new line of high-speed, 32-bit personal or multi-user workstations, designed for technical professionals, scientists and engineers. All RT PCs use Advanced Interactive Executive, a new IBM operating system, and contain chips with IBM-invented Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) architecture, which speeds processing.. ISG 002 01/21/86". Verso side of image also has writing in black ink at the top left corner which is "P4031".

Date

1986 ca.

Publisher

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)

Identifying Numbers

Other number P4031

Dimensions

8 x 10 in.

Format

Photographic print

Category

Publicity photograph; Identification photograph

Subject

IBM 6151/10 (Computer); IBM computers--History; International Business Machines Corporation (IBM); IBM computers; Computers--History; IBM 6154 (Display)

Credit

Courtesy of Gwen Bell

Lot Number

X7413.2015