Batchelor Business Machines

10/21/2019

From a 1960 IBM Typewriter catalog.

09/17/2019

09/17/2019

06/01/2019

05/07/2019

https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/selectric/

10/16/2018

07/31/2018

This is a brochure of our most popular model.
Call 818-222-2152 or 800-571-0071 for pricing and more info.
or email us at [email protected]. We welcome questions and are glad to help you.

07/06/2017

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Selectric_typewriter

The IBM Selectric typewriter was a highly successful model line of electric typewriters introduced by IBM on 31 July 1961.[1][2]

02/01/2017

Batchelor Business Machines selected for 2016 Calabasas Small Business Excellence
Award
Calabasas,CA - January 25, 2017 — Batchelor Business Machines has been selected for the
2016 Calabasas Small Business Excellence Award in the Office Equipment classification by the
Calabasas Small Business Excellence Award Program.
Various sources of information were gathered and analyzed to choose the winners in each
category. The 2016 Calabasas Small Business Excellence Award Program focuses on quality, not
quantity. Winners are determined based on the information gathered both internally by the
Calabasas Small Business Excellence Award Program and data provided by third parties.
About the Calabasas Small Business Excellence Awards Program
The Calabasas Small Business Excellence Awards recognizes outstanding small businesses that
serve the Calabasas area. Each year, our selection committee identifies businesses that we
believe have achieved outstanding marketing success in their local community and business
classification.
Recognition is given to those companies that have shown the ability to use their best practices and
implemented programs to generate competitive advantages and long-term value. These are small
businesses that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers
and our community. These exceptional companies help make the Calabasas area a vibrant and
vital place to live.
The Calabasas Small Business Excellence Awards was established to reward the best of small
businesses in Calabasas. Our organization works exclusively with local business owners, trade
groups, professional associations and other business advertising and marketing groups. Our
mission is to award the small business community’s contributions to the U.S. economy.
SOURCE:
Calabasas Small Business Excellence Award Program
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Email: [email protected]
URL: http://www.SmallBusinessExcellence.org
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02/01/2017

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10/06/2016

"Hail To The IBM" (IBM anthem)

Lift up our proud and loyal voices,
Sing out in accents strong and true,
With hearts and hands to you devoted,
And inspiration ever new;
Your ties of friendship cannot sever,
Your glory time will never stem,
We will toast a name that lives forever,
Hail to the I.B.M.

Our voices swell in admiration;
Of T. J. Watson proudly sing;
He'll ever be our inspiration,
To him our voices loudly ring;
The I.B.M. will sing the praises,
Of him who brought us world acclaim,
As the volume of our chorus raises,
Hail to his honored name.

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Background


Words by Fred W. Tappe; Music by Vittorio Giannini

The IBM Anthem was the result of a famous opera star's interest in the aims and ideals of IBM.Dusolina Giannini, dramatic soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Association, was vacationing in Europe in 1938 when IBM's president, Thomas J. Watson, Sr., was on a business visit to the continent. At his invitation, Miss Giannini attended a dinner at Bad Gastein, Austria, given in honor of IBM representatives from 25 European countries and their spouses. Miss Giannini, who entertained the gathering with selections from her most famous roles, was so impressed with the IBM spirit, that she called Tom Watson the following day to propose that she ask her brother, Vittorio Giannini -- a composer of considerable renown -- to write an IBM anthem. She further expressed the certainty that Fred W. Tappe, the lyricist (and IBMer), would enjoy writing the words to the anthem. Watson agreed -- and "Hail To The IBM" was the creation of the collaboration. The composition premiered in New York City at the banquet of the 1938 Hundred Percent Club, May 4, 1939, and was sung by the entire assembly.

01/27/2016

01/14/2016

Development of the IBM Electric typewriter

The first power operated machine of practical value was invented in 1914 by James Fields Smathers of Kansas City, Missouri. Mr. Smathers's operations as an inventor were halted by World War I. After he had served in the Army, he came back and went to work on his power-driven machine. In 1920 he produced a successful advanced model, and on April 2, 1923 turned that machine over to the Northeast Electric Company in Rochester for development. The machine originally had been designed to operate from a power-driven line shaft. The first conception of a power-driven typewriter worked on the same principle as the sewing machines in a large tailoring plant. This method of driving was immediately found to be a handicap to the machine because it eliminated the flexibility and portability of the typewriter. The Northeast Electric went ahead from this point with the development of a motor to be self-contained in the power base.

The original idea in developing the Electromatic drive was to make a power unit for all kinds of typewriters. The Northeast Electric Company actually built and sold 2500 of these power units to a typewriter company, where they were assembled on ordinary typewriters and marketed.

When an electrical drive was put on a machine it soon became apparent that the typewriter would require redesigning. The decision was made to design a typewriter primarily for power operation, and it was at this time that the Electromatic came into being. In 1928, when the General Motors Corporation purchased the Northeast Electric Company, the departments manufacturing the Electromatics did not go along in the transfer of ownership, but struck out with Rochester capital behind them to organize a new company under the same name of Electromatic Typewriters, Inc. The first model of Electromatic's new machine was completed on March 4, 1930. In 1933 Electromatic Typewriters became a division of IBM and immediately reaped many benefits from its association with this corporation. IBM's highly skilled engineering, educational and sales departments were instrumental in the continued steady growth of the Electric Typewriter Division.

11/12/2015

Selectrics that we rented to Mad Men. Email [email protected] if interested.