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 <rreza...@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. > > I just acquired on of these Type 37 masters and I am looking for technical > information on it. > > I've found ONE reference on the NAWCC forums to someone who scanned the > service information for it and put it on the web, but that link is no longer > working. Wnd while I did send an email to the person who had it up, I have > yet to hear a reply. > > I called up Simplex (who bought the IBM clock business) and the person I > spoke to was very friendly and spent some time looking for older service > information, but didn't have anything readily available for a 50 something > year old clock... > > So, I turn to my fellow time nuts and ask if anyone here might be able to > help. > > Incidentally, for those who have never heard of it, the Type 37 is a rather > interesting clock for time nuts. > > It's an electro-mechanical master clock, with a nice Invar pendulum, several > Telechron style 60 hz synchronous motors, AND a late 50's vintage vacuum > tube radio to receive the late 50's vintage WWV signal. > > A commercially made radio controlled pendulum master clock, very nifty :) > > When this was built, WWV was broadcasting out of someplace much further east > than Colorado (Maryland if memory serves) and was broadcasting time signals > using what I have seen described as "railroad morse" code rather than > today's more familiar mix of digital and analog signals. > -- > Russell > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.