The board of directors determined that within the US, IBM should direct its US domestic business in a more profitable direction than clocks.If you’re without electricity from Hurricane Sandy, get used to it. IBM's Time Equipment Division after WWII, accounted for less than ten percent of IBM's gross sales. This did have an impact on many IBM customers in the major US cities but in the smaller branch offices, the divisions, ET, TE and EAM (electric accounting machines) were often multi-disciplined and handled all IBM sales and service activities. Many opted for a position in the ET (electric typewriter) division. Time Equipment sales and service employees were given the choice of transfer to Simplex or to another IBM sales and service division. announced the sale of the TEĭivision in an audio broadcast to all US IBM offices in 1958. I have a vivid recollection of the time when Tom Watson Sr. The year, 'late 60ies' is ten years after the 1958 year IBM corporation discontinued selling and servicing Time Equipment and transferred the entire division to Simplex. These standards could possibly affect the locks and keys.īeyond IBM and Simplex, there were and are many after market repairer/maintainer/rebuilders who often re-brand products with modifications that change the product specifications.Ĭaperace writes in part: 'IBM continued to service their master clocks in the Boston area up until the mid to late 60ies, when the techs were told they had to retrain on other IBM equipment, IBM never told the customers that they were not going to service the equipment anymore and caused quite a problem for us.' In the US all IBM products complied with the National UL codes.

However some products that appear to be identical to products made for sale in the US but were made or assembled in other countries for sale or use in another country may be slightly different.Įvery country has and had their own product safety standards that required different electrical wiring and connectors and various and sundry different ground (earthing) safety requirements and connections.

Some TE product model names were the same in most countries if the product was made in the US.

However, IBM maintained a Time Equipment Division in Canada and in many other parts of the world for many years. Simplex purchased the entire US Time Equipment Division, lock, stock and employees in 1958. IBM manufactured products for use all over the world and some products were made to be used outside the United States. Simplex versus IBM product labeling depends on the country to which the product was first shipped to for use.

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