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Ibm From November 28 to December 4 on the IBM Stand at the Electronic Computer Exhibition you will be able to see the most comprehensive range of IBM Electronic DataProcessing Equipment ever assembled at one exhibition. But please don't imagine that by themselves these machines will solve all your business problems. They are the tools, the means to the end. Essentially we work with business, industry and governmnent in the develop- ment of better management control techniques: the machines are simply tools for the job. And that's how we would like you to see the machines on Stand 34 at Olympia: as tools for the job. Your job, perhaps. For the first time in Britain 305 RAMAC The newest concept in data processing since the electronic computer. The heart of the system is an arraY of spinning magnetic discs able to store up to 10,000.000 characters of informnation. Any record in this vast electronic ledger system can be referred to at any time; just type an enquiry and the 305 types the answer back. Fresh transactions are posted to the system in any sequence. calculations completed. documents printed or cards punched. and the ffie record updated-in one processing step. DATA TRANSCEIVERS Fast, reliable. and accurate transmission of data is essential to a centralized computing installation. With IBM Data Transceivers You can. in a fetw seconds send a punched card from branch to head office. or from continent to continent-by telegraph or telephone line. or by wireless. eso 'TAPE, SYSTEM I 4 ^ g |This is the most widelY used and the most completely proven computer in the world. We back that claim with 1.200 installed machines. The 650 on our stand is a very powerful system with magnetic taPe input/output. but there are smaller systems right down to the versatile basic machine. All are fully self-checking. 421/604-CALCULATINO GROUP If You have a computer type of job to do. but insufficient i volumne to justify one of the larger systems, the 4211604 may well be Your answer-and an answer at punched card prices. IBM UNITED XINGDOM LIMITED 101 WIGMORE STREET, LONDON Wl Ei*ULVd TELEPHONE: WELBECK 6600 DATA PROC8SSINO * ELECTRIC TYPEWRITERS. INTERNATIONAL TIME RECORDERS CXC3S
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