International Business Machines Corporation records and British Tabulating Machine Company histories, ca. 1950-1958.

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International Business Machines Corporation records and British Tabulating Machine Company histories, ca. 1950-1958.

The collection includes two series: IBM Records and BTM Histories. IBM Records contains fragments of a document detailing the contractual interaction between IBM and BTM in the first half of the 20th century and verbatim proceedings of a foreign accounting machines meeting at IBM in 1954. BTM Histories consists of two histories of the British Tabulating Machine Company.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7812906

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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International Business Machines Corporation

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International Business Machines Corporation was incorporated in New York State on June 16, 1911 under the name Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. In 1922, Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. purchased all of the shares of Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen Gesellschaft. In 1924 the official name of the company was changed to International Business Machines Corporation. In 1933, IBM CEO Thomas Watson ordered the merger of IBM subsidiaries in Germany (Optima, Degemag, Holgemag, Dehomag) under the name De...

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...

British Tabulating Machine Company

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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...