| Judging from the volume of requests and inquiries we receive
each year, clocks are one of the most popular product
lines in IBM's long history. An increasing number of people
-- collectors, dealers, customers, individual owners,
and retired and current IBM employees -- want to know
the age of their IBM clock or its value or how to repair
and service it. In some cases, the clocks are still hard
at work in their original settings decades after they
were first shipped from the Endicott plant. And in many
other cases, new owners have just acquired a used IBM
clock as an antique and want to know something of its
background and history.
For all those people, along with those with an interest
in IBM history and products or in clocks generally,
we have launched Clock Corner as an online repository
of useful information about IBM time equipment. As you
will see, from the close of the 19th century through
1958, IBM and its predecessors manufactured and sold
a wide variety of devices and systems to record, use,
transmit and display time. This first edition of Clock
Corner is just an initial gathering of illustrations,
documents and data regarding some of those products.
In the months to come, we'll periodically post additional
information to answer your questions and add to the
library of available resources on IBM clocks. If you
don't find what you need today, please let us know and
do check back from time to time for new material.
All of the documents posted here are in .pdf format
and can be viewed using Adobe® Acrobat® Reader®
version 3 and above. If you are not sure how to work
with files in this format, here are some basic instructions:
To browse a pdf file:
If you already have Adobe® Acrobat® Reader®
installed, and your browser is configured to use it
to open the pdf file, click on the file to browse it
without downloading it.
To download a pdf file:
Using Netscape® Navigator®, hold down the
shift key and click on the pdf file.
Using Microsoft® Internet Explorer®, right
click on the pdf file. In the resulting dialog box click
on Save Target as... After the pdf file has been downloaded,
use the Adobe® Acrobat® Reader® to view
or print the file.
To get a close-up view of an illustration:
Use the magnifying glass icon in Adobe® Acrobat®
Reader® to zoom in or out of any image in one of
the documents.
And now, welcome to the Clock
corner reference room. |
