Hardware

IBM hired engineer-inventor Charles Doty in 1925, and he first worked as a secretary at the company’s main office at 50 Broad Street in Manhattan before transferring to the engineering laboratory…

The IBM 056 was the verifier companion to the 024 Card Punch and 026 Printing Card Punch. The verifier was similar to the 026 keypunch except for a red error lens in the machine cover lower center…

The IBM Type 77 (or 077) Collator (left), introduced in 1937 for the Social Security contract, reads two decks of cards from its two input hoppers and sends the cards to any of five output bins…

A major activity in many unit record shops was sorting decks of punch card into the proper order as determined by information punched in the card. The same deck might be sorted differently…

IBM Card Sorters deal cards from a source deck into 13 output pockets (one pocket for rejects plus one pocket for each of the 12 rows on the card) at the rate of 250-2000 cards per minute,…

Card sorters can handle from 500 to 2000 cards per minute (the sorters with the faster rates use photoelectric read systems and vacuum card transports).

Card sorters read portions of each…

A major activity in many unit record shops was sorting decks of punch card into the proper order as determined by information punched in the card. The same deck might be sorted differently…

IBM announced the 085 collator on November 17, 1957.
The 85 collator performed many card filing and selection operations. It simultaneously could feed two sets of cards, merging the matched…

On November 27, 1957, IBM announced the 087 collator. It was the one of the first two products developed by the company's laboratory in Rochester, Minn., as a redesign of existing collators…

The IBM 101 Statistical Sorting Machine is a statistical translation machine that combines in one unit the functions of sorting, counting, accumulating, balancing, editing, and printing of…

IBM 1050 Data Communications System is a computer terminal subsystem to send data to and receive data from another 1050 subsystem or IBM computer in the IBM 1400, IBM 7000 or System/360 series. It…

The IBM 1130 Computing System was introduced in 1965. It was IBM's least-expensive computer to date, and was aimed at price-sensitive, computing-intensive technical markets like education and…

The IBM 1132 Line Printer was the normal printer for the IBM 1130 computer system. It printed 120 character lines at 80 lines per minute. The character set consisted of numbers, upper-case letters…

The 1240 was a banking system, equivalent to the 1440 system with MICR support.

Introduced with the System/370 in 1971, the IBM 129 was capable of punching, verifying, and use as an auxiliary, on line, 80 column card reader/punch for some computers. A switch on the keyboard…

The IBM 1301 Disk Storage Unit, with its larger capacity, flexibility and speed, greatly expanded the operational capability of the IBM 7000 series of computers (7070, 7094, 7080 and 7090). The…

The IBM 1302 Disk Storage was an improved version of the IBM 1301 with four times the storage capacity. It was used with the IBM 1410 Data Processing System and the 7000 series of computers.

The IBM 1311 Disk Storage Drive was announced on October 11, 1962 and was designed for use with several medium-scale business and scientific computers. The 1311 was about the size and shape of a…

The IBM 1360 Photo-Digital Storage System, or PDSS, was an online archival storage system for large data centers. It was the first storage device designed from the start to hold a terabit of data…

The IBM 1401 was a variable wordlength decimal computer that was announced by IBM on October 5, 1959. The first member of the highly successful IBM 1400 series, it was aimed at replacing…

The IBM 1402 was a high speed card reader/punch introduced on October 5, 1959 as a peripheral input/output device for the IBM 1401 computer. It was later used with other computers of the IBM 1400…

The IBM 1403 line printer was introduced as part of the IBM 1401 computer in 1959 and had an especially long life in the IBM product line. The original model could print 600 lines of text per…

The IBM 1405 Disk Storage Unit was announced by 1961 and was designed for use with the IBM 1401 series, medium scale business computers. The 1405 stored 10 million characters on a single module.…

The 1406 - a separate box - enabled the addition of more memory to the system - I believe that the MC I worked with had a base memory of 8k with the 1406 adding an additional 8k, but it could have…

The IBM 1410, a member of the IBM 1400 series, was a variable wordlength decimal computer that was announced by IBM on September 12, 1960 and marketed as a midrange "Business Computer". It was…

The IBM 1440, a member of the IBM 1400 series, was an IBM computer designed as a low-cost system for smaller businesses. It was announced on October 11, 1962 and withdrawn on February 8, 1971.…

IBM 1442 was a combination IBM card reader and card punch. It read and punched 80-column IBM-format punched cards and was used on the IBM 1440, the IBM 1130, the IBM 1800 and System/360 and was an…

The IBM 1450 bank data processing system debuted in 1968 as a low-cost data handling system designed specifically for banks. Among other functions, the system could perform checking account and…

The IBM 1460 was logically but not physically identical to a fully optioned 1401 with 16,000 characters of memory, and twice as fast.

The IBM 1620 was a general-purpose, stored-program data processing system for small businesses, research and engineering departments of large companies, and schools requiring solutions to complex…

The IBM 1627 was a rebranded Calcomp plotter sold by IBM for use with the IBM 1620, and, later, the IBM 1130 computers. It became perhaps the first non-IBM peripheral that IBM allowed to be…

The IBM 1710 was a process control system that IBM introduced in March 1961. It used either a 1620 I or a 1620 II Computer and specialized I/O devices (e.g., IBM 1711 A/D and D/A Converter, IBM…

The IBM 1711 Data Converter was part of the IBM 1710 process control computer. The 1711 contained an analog-to-digital converter that accepted signals from the IBM 1712 Multiplexer and Terminal…

The IBM 1712 Multiplexer and Terminal Unit was part of the IBM 1710 process control computer. The Terminal Unit provided the physical connections between factory wiring and the computer. The 1712…

The IBM 1720 was a pilot project to create a real-time process control computer based on the IBM 1620 Model I.Only three 1720 systems were ever built: one for the Amoco oil refinery in Whiting,…

The IBM 1750 is a stored program, microprocessor controlled PABX introduced in the late 1970's. The analogue switching network uses thyristor cross-points. The system can be expanded from a…

The IBM 1800 Data Acquisition and Control System (DACS) was a process control variant of the IBM 1130 with two extra instructions (CMP and DCM), extra I/O capabilities, 'selector channel like'…

The IBM 188 collator from 1961 feeds cards from two feeds at 650cpm each, 1300 total. The primary feed has a capacity of 3600 cards; the secondary 1200. The primary feed of the 188 Collator,…

The IBM 2250 Graphics Display Unit was announced as part of System/360 in 1964. Unlike most modern computer displays, which show images in raster format, the IBM 2250 used vector graphics. A…

The text-only 960-character monochrome IBM 2260 cathode ray tube (CRT) video display terminal plus computer keyboard was a 1964 predecessor to the more-powerful color text-and-graphics IBM 3270.…

The IBM 2361 Large Capacity Storage was a component of the IBM System/360 models 50, 5 (when not being used as a multiprocessor), and 75 computers. Storage was implemented using magnetic cores,…

The IBM 2741 was a printing computer terminal introduced in 1965. It combined a ruggedized Selectric typewriter mechanism with IBM SLT electronics and an RS-232-C serial interface. It operated at…

The IBM Type 285 Numeric Printing Tabulator, 1933, used in the Thomas J. Watson Astronomical Computing Bureau at Columbia University in the 1930s and 40s, in the Pupin Hall attic (transferred to…

Introduced in 1956, the IBM 305 RAMAC (Random Access Memory Accounting System) was an electronic general purpose data processing machine that maintained business records on a real-time basis. The…

The IBM 3083 Processor Complex is a cost-effective growth solution for users who require the power and performance of a medium to large data processing system. There are seven 3083 models: The…

International Business Machines Corporation today announced its most powerful computer, the 3084, and expanded its 308X family of large scale processors.

With the 3084's introduction, the…

The central electronic complexes of the IBM 3090 model 200 and model 400 processors consist of the following components:

•The processing unit, with two central processors in the model 200…

IBM 3101 ASCII Display Station, and its follow-on IBM 3151/315X and IBM 3161/316X are display terminals with asynchronous serial communication (start-stop signaling) that were used to attach to a…

IBM 3102 Printer using thermal paper-dot matrix printing technology can be attached to IBM 3101's auxiliary port, for horizontal 80 characters per line, vertical 6 lines per inch, each character…

IBM 3151 ASCII Display Station became available in 1987:

14-inch diagonal color CRT display (specify green, amber or white screen)
24 lines of 80-132 characters each
Consists of two…