Four separate manuals concerning IBM Electric Punched Card Accounting Machines held together into a single tome. The first manual is Principles of Operation, Card Punch Type 24, Printing Punch Card ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This gray desk-sized machine for ...

On June 8, 1887, Herman Hollerith applied for US patent #395,781 for his punch card counting machine, a device considered to be among the foundations of the modern information processing industry and ...

Earlier this month, IBM celebrated its 100th birthday. It wasn't called IBM back in 1911, though: It was lumbered with the high-tech-for-its-time name of Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, the ...

It’s always made sense for IBM to have a presence in the San Francisco Bay Area–and now it’s opening a major Watson center right downtown. IBM employees on an assembly line for the Ramac, the first ...