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Description
Visitors to the International Business Machines facility at Monterey and Cottle Roads, San Jose, as they tour the factory and see behind the scenes of how the computers are assembled, and quality tested. IBM employees, including women seated at the computers, explain the equipment to men, women and small children. In one image, one of the IBM tour guides holds a cigarette as he speaks to the audience. One display is titled, "Assembly Quality Control".
Type
image
Format
Black & White
Identifier
B2A31F05-2AE3-4957-90DC-859431578640 2013-58-224
Subject
International Business Machines Corporation Factories Quality assurance (LCSH) Computers--Testing (LCSH) Computer industry--California (LCSH) Nineteen fifties (LCSH)
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