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IT History: Prof. Zaveri - pioneer in the Information Technology. IT is like almanac.

Mainframe systems of 1970 era: (from left) the system's IBM 1402 Card-Read Punch, 1401 Processing Unit, 1403 Printer, and four 729 Magnetic Tape Units. Similar computers were used in Tata Motors, Dr. Beck & co., LIC, Indian Railways, and so on. Mr. Zaveri was trained to service these computer hardware.

Mainframe systems of 1970 era: This image shows (from left) the IBM 1622 Card-Read Punch, 1623 Storage Unit (at the rear) and the 1620 Central Processing Unit (in front), which contained the console, arithmetic and logical unit, and core storage. Similar computer was used in IITM (Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology).

ICL 1904 S mainframe computer system. This was installed in the Regional Computer Center at University of Pune. First data processing company in Pune, to offer payroll and account processing.

IBM leaves India. Department of Electronics moots CMC. Click on picture to enlarge.

CMC takes over IBM plant (Safed pool, Bombay) and IDM took over the card plant. Mr. Zaveri then joined CMC and was also trained on ICL mainframe computers.

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