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March 17, 2003 The following document is "Planning a Computer System - Project Stretch" edited by Werner Buchholz Systems Consultant Corporate Staff, Research and Engineering Internatinal Business Machines Corporation published by McGraw-Hill Book Company New York, ... 1962 Copyright status -------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: Plikerd, Scott To: '[email protected]' Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 12:02 PM Subject: (c) owner of Buchholz/PLANNING A COMPUTER SYSTEM Dear Mr. Thelen: According to our records, the copyright registration for above-referenced title published in 1962, was not renewed with the Copyright Office at the Library of Congress. Because this title was published before 1964, it did not receive an automatic renewal and appears to have fallen into the public domain. It is possible that IBM or even the author renewed this title in 1990, when it came up for renewal, but McGraw-Hill did not. To be absolutely sure, you will have to check with the Copyright Office to see if the copyright registration was renewed. Regards, Scott W. Plikerd Manager Permissions Department McGraw-Hill Education Two Penn Plaza, 9th Floor New York, NY 10121-2298 (212) 904-2614 (phone) (212) 904-6285 (fax) ------------------------------------------- Editor's permission -------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Werner Buchholz" To: "Ed Thelen" Cc: "Williams, Mike" ; "Spicer, Dag" Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 5:33 AM Subject: Re: your book "Planning a Computer System - Project Stretch" > At 03:43 AM 3/12/2003 -0800, Ed Thelen wrote: > >I presume your book is now "in the public domain". However, I think it > >proper to ask your permission > >to place a representation of your book on my web site. > > I certainly have no objection. > > Werner Buchholz The book was kindly loaned by The Computer history Museum 1401 Shoreline Blvd. Mountain View, California and scanned by Ed Thelen [email protected] -------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------- Chapter 1 PROJECT STRETCH by W. Buchholz The computer that is discussed in this book was developed by the International Business Machines Corporation a t Poughkeepsie, N.Y ., under Project Stretch. The project started toward the end of 1954. By then IBM was producing several stored-program digital computers : the IBM 650, a medium-sized computer; the IBhf 704, a large-scale computer primarily for scientific applications; and the IBM 705, a larg