[time-nuts] IBM TYpe 37 Master was Re: IBM's "Clock Corner"

[Don Couch]

Hi, Russell,

I just recently sold my IBM Type 37 to a collector in the Los Angeles area. I have the factory documentation for it. If you send me your snail mail address, I will run off a copy for you.
This is indeed a fabulous clock. Mine was built in 1957. It used the 3-minute 600Hz. tone that WWV used to send to synchronize itself every hour. The 3-minute tone was validated by using a rotating cam switch driven by a separate synchronous motor. WWV changed its broadcast format a few years later to send one-minute tones instead of 3 minute.
There is one of these on display in the lobby of the NIST labs in Boulder, Colorado.

email me at couchclocks at yahoo dot com (make the obvious changes in the email address). 

Don Couch

--- On Fri, 7/1/11, Russell Rezaian <rrezaian at motorola.com> wrote:

> From: Russell Rezaian <rrezaian at motorola.com>
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] IBM TYpe 37 Master was Re: IBM's "Clock Corner"
> To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" <time-nuts at febo.com>
> Date: Friday, July 1, 2011, 1:08 PM
> Hi Pete,
> 
> Thanks.  Yes, I was planning to write them
> myself.  The existence and quality of the Clock Corner
> site itself is pretty strong evidence that they take this
> sort of request very seriously...
> 
> Incidentally, if you search for the Typer 37 master in the
> world's favorite search engine there's a link to  NIST
> document that has a picture of a Type 37 which is supposed
> to be on display in Boulder somewhere :)
> 
> Mine doesn't look quite as nice (it needs a little TLC) but
> these are very interesting clocks...
> 
> More "Atomic Era" than atomic though.
> --
> Russell
> 
> At 12:52 PM -0700 2011/07/01, Pete Lancashire wrote:
> > I would give a try at contacting IBM's Archivist. Who
> ever wrote the Clock page
> > came across as very dedicated to his or her job.
> > 
> > -pete
> > 
> > On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Russell Rezaian
> <rrezaian at motorola.com>
> wrote:
> >>  I've actually had reason to reference this
> IBM resource myself recently.
> >> 
> >>  Unfortunately they don't have much in the
> way of detail on the Type 37
> >  > Master.
> 
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