File:IBM 150 Extra Engineers 1951.jpg
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English: A December 1951 advertisement for the IBM 604 Electronic Calculating Punch that was first produced in 1948. The machine could be programed to do addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. The input and output were done with punch cards. The advertisement claims the IBM 604 can do the work of 150 engineers with slide rules.[1] Fortune magazine, volume 44 number 6, December 1951, page 55. This 10.25 by 13 inch (26 by 33 cm) magazine has 232 pages. This advertisement was created by Cecile & Presbrey; the agency began working with Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. (which in 1924 became IBM Corp.) in 1914. |
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| Source | Scanned from the December 1951 issue of Fortune by User:Swtpc6800 Michael Holley. The image was touched up with Adobe Photo Elements. |
| Author | Cecile & Presbrey advertising agency for International Business Machines. |
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This advertisement did not have a copyright notice and is in the public domain. From the US Copyright Office Circular 3. Page 3, Contributions to Collective Works. (A magazine is a "collective work.")
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