IBM EndicottPlant Number One
Endicott, NY is a small town. Not much going on here. I was here 4 days before anyone mentioned the IBM plant. Driving along the dark streets among these buildings created a whisper of an echo of something that was once a majestic symbol of technology and dreams. Sad. Forgotten. Breathtakingly historic.
There's a great little history on this plant & it's worth the read. This is where it all began.
Back before there was an International Business Machines (c.1924); back before Thomas J. Watson, Sr., joined IBM's predecessor, the Computing-Tabulating-Machine Company (1914); even back before the formation of CTR itself (1911), IBM's very first manufacturing facility had already begun to take shape in Endicott, N.Y. Read more...http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/endicott/endicott_intro.html
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