Want IBM 400-series account machine

-------------Original Message: Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:54:05 -0800 (PST) From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf at siconic.com> Subject: Want IBM 400-series account machine Can you ever... Sexy, eh? hmmm, you need to get out more... FWIW, a while back I sent a box full of IBM unit record machine manuals, including some tech manuals, to Norm Aleks out in your part of the country. He was going to put them up on the web somewhere but I haven't run across them; if you're interested you might get in touch with him. I think Al had some on his site as well, and I also still have a duplicate copy for one or two machines myself. Good luck building that 402; meanwhile an emulator would be an interesting project... (I can see it now: patch panels on the screen & connecting hubs with mouse clicks & drags, virtual cards dropping into the pockets of the virtual 082 sorter, dragging a virtual card deck from the virtual 083 collator to the virtual 402, etc....) BTW, although the 402/403 &c were indeed officially called "accounting machines," they were usually referred to as "tabulating machines." The term "accounting machines" usually referred to the manual machines used in banks everywhere, mostly from NCR, Monroe & Burroughs. mike