A Hidden IT “Best Seller”: IBM Customer Engineering Maintenance Manuals, 1930s–1980s

IF 0.7 3区哲学 Q4 COMPUTER SCIENCE, THEORY & METHODS

IEEE Annals of the History of Computing Pub Date : 2023-12-28 DOI:10.1109/mahc.2023.3345654

James W. Cortada

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Abstract

IBM published a large body of technical manuals that described how to install, repair, and maintain its products during the 20th century. These were only available to the many thousands of IBM customer engineers. They remain a source of IT literature that historians have yet to study. This article describes these collections and recommends what historians and archivists should do about them.

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隐藏的 IT "畅销书"：IBM 客户工程维护手册，1930-1980 年代

20 世纪，IBM 出版了大量技术手册，介绍如何安装、维修和维护其产品。这些手册只提供给成千上万的 IBM 客户工程师。它们仍然是历史学家尚未研究的 IT 文献来源。本文介绍了这些藏品，并建议历史学家和档案保管员应如何处理它们。

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IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 工程技术-计算机：理论方法

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0.80

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28.60%

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>12 weeks

期刊介绍： The IEEE Annals of the History of Computing serves as a record of vital contributions which recount, preserve, and analyze the history of computing and the impact of computing on society. Where possible, first hand accounts of events and activities are recorded with minimal editorial change, and scholarly reports of analyses of the historical record from archives and personal contact are published so as to better understand both the past and the future of our field.