> My experience with IBM legal (who were actually quite communicative when > I approached them) on that front with IBM 1410 manuals suggests to me > that they will not ever give explicit permission, because nobody at IBM > will ever by confident that they won't end up giving away some trade > secret or other.
We (Techworks in Binghamton, NY) work with the archivist quite a bit, and are a=on very good terms. Nope, they simply did not keep much from that era. It was probably disposed of back when IBM was in trouble 30 years ago. -- Will