The Tabulator
YEAR: 1952
ITEM: Periodical
COMPANY: Hollerith (IBM) Limited
COUNTRY: India
IN OUR COLLECTION: Yes
This magazine subtitled, A Journal Devoted To HOLLERITH Punched Card Accounting is not exciting reading. We have scanned in the entire 27 page publication so you can see for yourself...just don't read it while operating heavy machinery. [Link is below.] There actually is no date in the magazine but it is issue #77 which, by using other sources, can be dated to the May/June 1952 issue.
Keep in mind that the the publication date was 1952. India only became independent from Great Britain in 1947 and the country was only formed in 1950.
The Hollerith (IBM) Limited company had just been formed as a subsidiary of the The British Tabulating Machine Company Limited (BTM). In fact the entire back cover lists all the BTM offices and the magazine was printed in Great Britain, not Bombay.
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Documents
Documents for this item have not yet been scanned or not yet posted. There are a lot of pages...contact us if you have an immediate need. (Although there are not a lot of "immediate needs" for a 70+ year old computer!)
Exceedingly Rare
We don't have much information at all on this publication. We're not even sure if it was only printed in English!
We were able to find two copies in the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives at King's College from 1953 and 1958. We also found at least five copies at the Science Museum Group which is part of Leeds University in the United Kingdom.
Finally, The British Library at St. Pancras at 96 Euston Rd, London reports that it holds seven copies.
(The Science Museum Group may have lots more as they make a reference to 67 copies in their very last line...but it is unclear as to whether they are part of the collection or simply a list of what was published.)
OUR DEFINITIONS OF RARITY
One of a Kind: Only known existing item.
Exceedingly Rare: Only 2 to 10 known to exist.
Very Rare: Only 11 to 25 are known to exist.
Rare: Only 26 to 50 are known to exist.
Difficult: Difficult to find.
Available:Can be commonly be purchased.
Unknown: We cannot make a determination.
(For comparison: Many people consider the Apple-1 computer to be rare. As of 2025 there are 92 confirmed and probable Apple-1 computers.)
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