More than 400 large and small businesses were among the subcontractors and suppliers who built subassemblies or parts used in the IBM 701 Data Processing System. These companies, some with just a few employees, were located throughout the United States. Among the 701 vendors were:

  • Acme Electric Corp., Cuba, N.Y. -- transformers.
  • Aero Rad Corp., Youngstown -- single pluggable units.
  • Aerovox Corp., New Bedford, Mass. -- capacitors.
  • Aircraft Marine Products, Inc., Harrisburg, Pa. -- solderless connectors.
  • Air Filters Corp., New York -- air filters.
  • Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp., Brackenridge, Pa. -- Mu-metal.
  • Allen Bradley Co., Milwaukee -- carbon resistors, potentiometers.
  • Aluminum Company of America, Albany -- drum forgings.
  • American Phenolic Corp., Chicago -- coaxial connectors.
  • Arrow Hart Hegeman Electric Co., Hartford -- miscellaneous switches.
  • Automatic Electric Sales Corp., Chicago -- lever keys.
  • Barden Corp., Danbury -- precision bearings.
  • Breeze Corp., Newark -- memory unit plug and receptacle.
  • Bussman Manufacturing Co., St. Louis -- fuses.
  • Cinch Manufacturing Corp., Chicago -- terminal blocks, sockets.
  • Clarostat Manufacturing Co., Inc., Dover, N.H. -- potentiometers, power resistors
  • Codeco Electronic Consultants, Millburn, N.J. -- master oscillator.
  • Condenser Products Co., Chicago -- capacitors.
  • Consolidated Molded Products Corp., Scranton -- bases, sockets and spacers for pluggable units; miscelleneous molded parts.
  • Cornell-Dubilier Electric Corp., South Plainfield, N.J. -- capacitors.
  • Corning Glass Works, Corning, N.Y. -- conducting glass panels.
  • Cornish Wire Co., Williamstown, Mass. -- bulk interconnecting cable.
  • Daystrom Electric Corp., Poughkeepsie -- intra and interconnecting cables.
  • Dayton Rogers Mfg. Co., Minneapolis -- miscellaneous molded parts.
  • Edson Tool and Manfacturing Co., Bellville, N.J. -- covers, memory drum, tape frames, sheet metal fabication.
  • Electrons, Inc., Newark -- power tubes.
  • Engineering Research Associates, Inc., St. Paul -- pulse transformers.
  • Erie Resistor Corp., Erie, Pa. -- multiple pluggable units, capacitors.
  • Falstrom Co., Passaic, N.J. -- main frames, metal sheet fabrication.
  • Fahnon Metal Industries, Inc. -- Rochester, N.Y. -- sheet metal fabrication.
  • General Electric Co., Schenectady -- electron tubes, power cables, capacitors.
  • L. H. Gilmer Co., New York -- Speedage Kord belts.
  • Gudeman Co., Chicago -- capacitors.
  • Haydon Manufacturing Co., Inc., Torrington, Conn. -- timers.
  • Howard Industries, Inc., Racine, Wis. -- synchronous hysteresis.
  • Indiana Steel Products Co., Valparaiso -- Cunife wire, Alnico magnets.
  • International Resistance Co., Philadelphia -- potentiometers, deposited carbon resistors.
  • P. R. Mallory and Co., Inc., Indianapolis -- capacitors.
  • Micro Balancing, Inc., Garden City, N.Y. -- dynamic balancing of drums.
  • Micro Switch, Freeport, Ill. -- micro switches, thermo switches.
  • James Millen Mfg. Co., Malden, Mass. -- cathode ray tube shields, delay lines.
  • Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co., St. Paul -- magnetic tapes.
  • Monarch Metal Products, Inc., Mount Vernon, N.Y. -- sheet metal fabrication.
  • National Co., Inc., Malden, Mass. -- chokes.
  • New Departure Division, General Motors Corp., Bristol, Conn. -- tape drive bearings.
  • Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., Brooklyn -- conducting glass cathode ray tubes.
  • Plastoid Corp., Hamburg, N.J. -- bulk interconnecting cables.
  • Power Equipment Co., Detroit -- power supplies.
  • Precision Metal Products Co., Stoneham, Mass. -- terminal boards.
  • Radio Corp. of America -- Harrison, N.J. --cathode ray tubes, electron tubes.
  • Robbins and Myers, Inc., New York -- motors.
  • Sangamo Electric Co., Springfield, Ill. -- capacitors.
  • Sprague Electric Co., North Adams, Mass. -- capacitors.
  • Stanwyck Winding Co., Inc., Newburgh, N.Y. -- special chokes and coils.
  • Sundberg-Ferar, Royal Oak, Mich. -- operator's panel, distribution panel.
  • Sylvania Electric Products, Inc., New York -- germanium diodes.
  • Thomas and Betts Co., Elizabeth, N.J. -- coaxial terminators, solderless connectors.
  • Torrington Manufacturing Co., Torrington, Conn. -- blower wheels.
  • Tung Sol Electric, Inc., Newark -- electron tubes.
  • Universal Instruments Corp., Binghamton -- memory drawer components.
  • Wallace Barnes Co., Bristol, Conn. -- springs, base contacts and socket contacts for pluggable units.
  • Ward Leonard Electric Co., Mount Vernon, N.Y. -- power resistors.
  • Weston Electric Instrument Corp., Newark -- meters, sensitrols.
  • Wilcor Products, Inc., Cleveland -- precision resistors.
  • Welwyn (Rockbar Corp.), New York -- precision resistors.

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