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| Some IBM divisions had the glamor jobs. The Data Processing
Division was the company’s principal marketing organization
for decades, sellers of the popular IBM 1400, System/360
and System/370 computer families. The Federal Systems
Division made significant contributions to the exploration
of space, including the historic manned missions to the
Moon. And the Research Division was (and is) a world leader
in science and technology, winning Nobel Prizes in two
consecutive years.
But other IBM divisions -- less prominent and certainly
less celebrated -- were just as important both to IBM’s
growth and our customers’ successful embrace and
exploitation of newly emerging data processing tools
and techniques. Fifty years ago, one of those units
began life as the IBM Electric Accounting Machine Supplies
Division. It had the decidedly prosaic responsibility
to manufacture and market miscellaneous data processing
materials, such as punched cards and magnetic tapes,
used with the company’s electric accounting machines
and newer electronic computers. For ten years, from
1956 until 1966 (when its name was changed), the IBM
Supplies Division was at the heart of the booming data
processing business because those admittedly pedestrian
offerings in its product portfolio actually received,
stored and provided the billions of bits of information
and data generated by IBM’s tabulating machines
and computers in the middle of the 20th century.
So now step back to the era of Elvis, the cha-cha and
the New Frontier for a reunion with the Supplies Division
-- and its IBM Port-A-Punch, Micro-Processing System
and Votomatic -- by visiting the:
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