James W. Birkenstock collection of IBM records and British Tabulating Machine Company histories circa 1950-1958.

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James W. Birkenstock collection of IBM records and British Tabulating Machine Company histories circa 1950-1958.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/301480872

Collection contains fragments of a document detailing the contractual interaction between IBM and the British Tabulating Machine Company (BTM) in the first half of the 20th century, a verbatim proceedings of a foreign accounting machines meeting at IBM in 1954 and two histories of the British Tabulating Machine Company.

1 box (0.1 cubic feet).

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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SNAC Resource ID: 7283661

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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A series of meetings were held between the British Tabulating Machine Company Limited and the Burroughs Adding Machine Company in January and February of 1952. The "HOBO Group" consisted of a select number of members from each company. The self-imposed objectives of the HOBO group were "to develop specifications for equipment to satisfy all of the major economic levels of the world market for business machines; to make recommendations covering current short range and medium range programs, and t...

Birkenstock, James W. (James Warren), 1912-

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International Business Machines executive. From the description of Oral history interview with James W. Birkenstock, 1980 Aug. 12. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63276348 James W. Birkenstock joined International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) as a salesman in 1935. He was appointed as a Corporate Vice President in 1958 and elected director of IBM World Trade Corporation in 1966. During his tenure at IBM, Birkenstock was involved with the in...