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Gerber Scientific Instrument Company
Records,
1911-1998 |
Extent and Forms of Material: 65.5 cubic feet, including
photographs, videotapes and one film (162 boxes)
Creator: Gerber Scientific Instrument Company
Abstract: Records document the Gerber Scientific Instrument
Company and its four subsidiaries: Gerber Garment Technology, Inc., Gerber Scientific
Products, Inc., Gerber Systems Corp., and Gerber Optical, Inc. Gerber Scientific
designs, develops, manufactures, markets and services computer aided design
and computer aided CAD/CAM systems. The records include correspondence, memoranda,
product literature, trade literature, patent records, instruction manuals, proposals,
engineering records, photographs, technical reports, drawings, press releases,
and newspaper clippings.
Repository: Archives Center, National Museum of American History,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; archivescenter@si.edu;
202-633-3270; www.americanhistory.si.edu/archives
Collection Number: AC0929
Processing Note: Processed by Bob Ageton (volunteer), Jennifer
Dannenberg (intern), Adrienne Cain (intern) and Frank Robinson (archives technician),
supervised by Alison L. Oswald, archivist, March 2007.
© 2008 by the Smithsonian Institution. All rights reserved.
 Information for users of
the collection
Conditions Governing Access: The collection
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Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use: Copyright
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Preferred Citation: [Title and date of item],
Gerber Scientific Instrument Company Records, 1911-1998, Archives
Center, National Museum of American History, box number X, folder
number XX, digital file number XXXXXXXX
Container listing: series 4, 5, 6
Series 1 :::
Series 2 :::
Series 3 ::: Series
4 ::: Series
5 ::: Series
6 ::: Series 7
::: Series 8
::: Series 9
::: Series 10
::: Series 11
::: Series 12
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Folder |
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SERIES
4, PRODUCT LITERATURE, 1953-1996 |
| 84 |
1 |
Product History, 1962 |
| |
2 |
Early products, 1953,
undated |
| |
3 |
Price lists, 1964 |
| |
4 |
Gerber Scientific,
Inc. (product literature folder only), undated |
| |
5 |
Product overview,
undated |
| |
6 |
Building Your Future,
Gerber Garment Technology, 1968 |
| |
7 |
Short Form Catalog,
[1964?] |
| |
8 |
3M Vinyl Colors, 2001
|
| |
9 |
AutoPrep 5000- Smithsonian,
1995 |
| |
10 |
Photographs (Gerber
System 40 Automatic Artwork Generator, 4477 Hi-Speed Photo
Plotter, etc.) |
| |
11 |
AccuMark 300, System
Profile, undated |
| |
12 |
AccuMark Automark,
undated |
| |
13 |
AccuMark AM-700 KWS,
undated |
| |
14 |
AccuPlot 300, 310,
700, undated |
| |
15 |
AccuMark Software
Toolkit, undated |
| 160 |
1 |
AccuMark 300 Model
320 (design grading and marking system), 1991 |
| |
2 |
AccuMark 700 FS (network
file server), undated |
| |
3 |
AccuMark PDS (pattern
design system), undated |
| |
4 |
AccuMark Scan 100
(high performance scanner), 1991 |
| |
5 |
AccuMark Silhouette
(pattern development system), 1991 |
| |
6 |
AccuPlot 700-VHD-CXS
(high speed plotter), 1991 |
| |
7 |
Accuroller 600 (marker
rolling system), 1991 |
| |
8 |
Gerber Aerospace Systems-Gerberlabeller
S-91-L, Gerbercutter S-91-C, and Gerber PN-5 |
| |
9 |
Gerbercutter S-93,
undated |
| |
10 |
Gerberdesigner-Creative
Designer 150 (design, merchandising and style development),
undated |
| |
11 |
Gerber Garmnent Technology
(Gerber Garment Technology (GGT)) Express 1 (fabric management
system), undated |
| |
12 |
Gerber Garment Technology
(Gerber Garment Technology (GGT)), personal computer and productivity
tool, undated |
| |
13 |
Gerber Garment Technology
(Gerber Garment Technology (GGT)) System Furniture, 1991 |
| |
14 |
Gerber Markamatic
5000 PDS 9workstation), undated |
| |
15 |
Gerbermarker (product
data management), 1994 |
| |
16 |
GM-100 (production
system), undated |
| |
17 |
GM-200 unit (production
system), undated |
| |
18 |
Gerberplanner (cut
order planning system), undated |
| |
19 |
Power processor (cutting
protocol system), undated |
| |
20 |
S-95( low and medium
ply cutting), undated |
| 84 |
16 |
Application Feature
No. 21-C Advantages of the Gerber 24-Aperture Wheel |
| |
17 |
Applied Programming
Technology Corp., undated |
| |
18 |
Authorized ADP Price
List, 1972-1973 |
| |
19 |
AutoGraph, 1982 |
| |
20 |
Automatic Artwork
Generation Service, 1966 |
| |
21 |
Automatic Artwork
Generation Systems, undated |
| |
22 |
Automatic Digitizer,
Undated |
| |
23 |
Computer-Aided Design
(CAD) Systems Product Descriptions, Undated |
| |
24 |
Communique,
Gerber Garment Technology (GGT) Sales and Marketing Newsletter,
Vol. 2 No. 2, 1996 |
| |
25 |
Digital Data Reduction
System, undated |
| |
26 |
Derivimeter, 1955 |
| |
27 |
Draft Aid, undated
|
| |
28 |
Equameter, 1957 |
| |
29 |
Encimat MB 2000, undated |
| |
30 |
Encimat MB 3000, undated |
| |
31 |
Encimat MB 4000, undated
|
| |
32 |
General Product Brochure,
undated |
| |
33 |
Gerber Camsco, undated |
| 85 |
1 |
GERBERcutter S-91
High Ply Cutter, undated |
| |
2 |
GERBERcutter Automatic
Cutting Systems, undated |
| |
3 |
Gerber Garment Technology
and Gerber Camsco, undated |
| |
4 |
GERBERmover, Undated |
| |
5 |
GERBERsuite, 1995 |
| |
6 |
Gerber Systems at
Various General Electric Locations, 1971 |
| |
7 |
Gerber Garment Technology
(Gerber Garment Technology (GGT)) Products with Vacuum Hold-Down,
undated |
| |
8 |
GM-200, Systems Profile,
undated |
| |
9 |
Gerber Plotter, GP-30-D
X-Y Plotter, undated |
| |
10 |
Gerber Plotters, GP-30
DV and GP-60-DV, 1962 |
| |
11 |
Graphanalogue, 1953 |
| |
12 |
Graphics Generator
Program, 1969 |
| |
13 |
Graphix 4B, Computerized
Lettering Systems, undated |
| |
14 |
Gerber Scientific
Intsrument (GSI)C Products with Vacuum Hold-Down, undated |
| |
15 |
Hermes Concept 2000
Computer Engraver, undated |
| |
16 |
Interactive Graphics,
undated |
| |
17 |
Laser Interferometer,
1970 |
| |
18 |
LDI-1000/1500 Laser
Imaging Systems, 1985 |
| |
19 |
LDI 9620 Laser Photoplotting
System, 1988 |
| |
20 |
Model 22 Table, 1968 |
| |
21 |
Model 23 Table, 1968
|
| |
22 |
Model 32 Automatic
Drafting Table, undated |
| |
23 |
Model 32B Photoplotter,
undated |
| |
24 |
Model 33 Automatic
Drafting Table, undated |
| |
25 |
Model 33 Table, undated
|
| |
26 |
Model 33B Photoplotter,
undated |
| |
27 |
Model 35 Photoplotter,
undated |
| |
28 |
Model 40 Automatic
Drafting Table, undated |
| |
29 |
Model 40 Photoplotter,
undated |
| |
30 |
Model 42 Superplotter,
uindated |
| |
31 |
Model 43 Supreplotter,
undated |
| |
32 |
Model 63 Drum Plotter,
undated |
| |
33 |
Model 75 Table, 1968
|
| |
34 |
Model 77 Pen Plotter,
undated |
| |
35 |
Model 78 Precision
Drafting System, 1985 |
| |
36 |
Model 200, 1986 |
| |
37 |
Model 1434 Laser Controlled
Photoplotting System, 1974-1975 |
| |
38 |
Model 1434 Photoplotting
System, undated |
| |
39 |
Model 1850 Automatic
Optical Inspection System, 1988 |
| |
40 |
Model 2032B Graphic
Display System, undated |
| |
41 |
Model 3244 Photoplotter,
undated |
| |
42 |
Model 4174 Pattern
Cutting System, 1986 |
| 86 |
1 |
Model 4477P-Color
Cartographic Drafting System, undated |
| |
2 |
Model Gerber Analogue
Reduction System (GADRS), undated |
| |
3 |
Model Gerber Coordinate
Digitizer (Gerber Coordinate Digitizer (GCD), 1 Digitizer,
1968 |
| |
4 |
Model GP30D Plotter,
1961 |
| |
5 |
Model M-12 Buffered
Magnetic Tape Reader, 1968 |
| |
6 |
Model M-15 Magnetic
Tape Reader, 1968 |
| |
7 |
Model Optical Exposure
Head (OEH), B Photo Optical Exposure Head, undated |
| |
8 |
odel Optical Exposure
Head (OEH), F/Fotofast/"What is Fotofast?, undated |
| |
9 |
Model Optical Exposure
Head (OEH), I Photo Optical Exposure Head, undated |
| |
10 |
Model OMS-1, undated
|
| |
11 |
Model PC-740 Artwork
Generator, undated |
| |
12 |
Model PC-800, undated
|
| |
13 |
Model R-2, Instruction
Manual, undated |
| |
14 |
Optical Line Follower,
undated |
| |
15 |
Pattern Design Grading/Marker
Making Networking Systems, 1990 |
| |
16 |
Pattern Generating
System, undated |
| |
17 |
Penplotters, undated |
| |
18 |
Photoplotters, undated |
| |
19 |
Promaker BSD104, undated |
| |
20 |
QuickLook, undated |
| |
21 |
Sabre 5000, 1985 |
| |
22 |
S/4E Engraver/Router,
undated |
| |
23 |
Series 500, Automatic
Drafting System, undated |
| |
24 |
Series 600, Automatic
Drafting System, 1964 |
| |
25 |
Series 600, Control,
1968 |
| |
26 |
Series 1000, Automatic
Drafting System, 1963 |
| |
27 |
Series 1000, Automatic
Drafting System, 1964 |
| |
28 |
Series 2000B, Control,
1968 |
| |
29 |
Series 4400, Plotting
Control, undated |
| |
30 |
Series PC-700, Automatic
Artwork Generators, undated |
| |
31 |
Short-Form Catalog,
1963-1964 |
| |
32 |
Specifications for
a Geber Photo Exposure Head Model Optical Exposure Head -F,
undated |
| |
33 |
SuperSprint, undated |
| |
34 |
System 40, Automatic
Artwork Generator, undated |
| |
35 |
System 40, Automatic
Artwork Generator, Procurement Specification, 1970 |
| |
36 |
System 40, Automatic
Artwork Generator, undated |
| |
37 |
Variable Aperture
Photo Exposure Head, undated |
| |
38 |
Verifier Plotter 600,
1964 |
| |
39 |
Variable Scale, 1967
|
| |
40 |
Variable Scale, undated |
| |
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SERIES
5, INSTRUCTION MANUALS/USER GUIDES, 1953-1980, UNDATED |
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Subseries
1, Gerber Scientific Instrument Company, 1953-1979 |
| 87 |
1 |
Model 1434 Operators
Manual, 1974 |
| |
2 |
Gerber Model 1434
Ultra-Precise Artwork Generator Preventive Maintenance Manual,
1974 |
| |
3 |
Gerber Model 1434
Systems Manual for the Ultra Precise Artwork Generator,
1974 |
| |
4 |
Model 1434 Ultra-Precise
Artwork Generator Electrical Maintenance Manual, 1974
October |
| |
5 |
Model 1434 Ultra-Precise
Artwork Generator Electrical Maintenance Manual, 1974
October |
| 88 |
1 |
Manual of Manufacturing
Procedures, Assembly and Soldering, 1965 |
| |
2 |
International Business
Machines (International Business Machines (IBM)) 1130, 1400
OEM Channel Interface Card (GHP-5-2) Electrical Maintenance,
1974 |
| |
3 |
Gerber Derivimeter
Model D-2, Manuals, 1955 |
| |
4 |
Model S-2 Gerber
Oscillogram Scanner Instruction Manual, 1959 |
| |
5 |
Gerber Projection
Data Reduction System Model for the Gerber Production Data
Reduction System (GPDRS), undated |
| |
6 |
Point-To-Point
Positioning System Model GP-60-D Operation and Maintenance
Manual, undated |
| |
7 |
Gerber Digital
Plotting System, GP-30-DV, GP-60-DV Maintenance Manual,
undated |
| |
8 |
Gerber Optical
Exposure Head OEM-F Instruction Manual, 1978 |
| |
9 |
Gerber Model Optical
Exposure Head M-A Optical Exposure Head, Manual, 1974 |
| |
10 |
Gerber Goat Model
B Operating and Maintenance Manual, undated |
| 89 |
1 |
Gerber Goat Model
and Oscillogram Amplitude Tabulator, Instruction Manual,
undated |
| |
2 |
Gerber Model MP-28
Marker Plotter User's Guide, undated |
| |
3 |
Gerber Model MP-28
Marker Plotter User's Guide, 1977 |
| |
4 |
Gerber Model 34
Table Maintenance Manual, 1974 |
| |
5 |
Gerber Model GSM-80
Sewing System Operators Guide, undated |
| |
6 |
Gerber Model S-2
Oscillogram Scanner, Instruction Manual, 1964 |
| |
7 |
Gerber Oscillogram
Scanner Model S-10-C Instruction Manual, undated |
| |
8 |
Supplementary
Instruction Manual Gerber Plotter Model GP-501, undated |
| |
9 |
Instruction Manual,
Model 1400 Program Description, 1974 |
| |
10 |
Instruction Manual,
Model 1400 Program Description, 1974 |
| |
11 |
Instruction Manual,
Series 1000 Auto Drafting Machine, 1964 |
| 90 |
1 |
Instruction Manual,
Gerber Graph Analogue, Model GA-103, 1953 |
| |
2 |
Instruction Manual,
Gerber Equameter, Model GEO-450, 1957 |
| |
3 |
Gerber Variable
Scale, Application and Instruction Manual, 1953 |
| |
4 |
Instruction Manual,
Point-to-Point Positioning System, (200-KC S-PAC Version),
1963 |
| |
5 |
Gerber Series 1000
Automatic Drafting Machine, 1964 |
| |
6 |
Gerber Series 2000
Stored Program Graphic Display System, 1966 |
| |
7 |
Gerber Series 2000
Stored Program Drafting Machine Control, 1965 |
| |
8 |
3 Axis Operating
Digitizer Operating Instructions, 1968 |
| |
9 |
Draft Aid a New Concept,
1968 |
| |
10 |
Graphic Arts Data
Terminal (GADT), 1979 |
| 91 |
1 |
Magnetic Tape Controlled
Plotting System, 1962, 1963 |
| |
2 |
Gerber Six Channel
Recorder Model GPR-B, 1959 |
| |
3 |
Goat Model A Oscillogram
Amplitude Tabulator, undated |
| |
4 |
Series 2000 Model
2032 Graphical Display System, 1966 |
| |
5 |
Series 6000 Automatic
Draft machine, 1964 |
| |
6 |
Point-to-Point Positioning
System, 1962 |
| |
7 |
Manual of manufacturing
Procedures, undated |
| |
8 |
Model DH-A-4P Four
tool Drawing Head Option with Tool Accessories, 1974 |
| |
9 |
Model 24 Table
Pen and Paper Users Guide, 1974 |
| 92 |
1 |
GA 4042 Graphic Arts
Photoplotting System, 1979 |
| |
2 |
Automatic Point Plotter
and Reader, 1962 |
| |
3 |
Gerber Optical Exposure
Head Model Optical Exposure Head (OEH), undated |
| |
4 |
System 90 Control
Maintenance, 1974 |
| |
5 |
Gerber Data Reduction
System, undated |
| |
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Subseries
2, Other Companies, 1962, 1980 |
| |
7 |
Bendix Industrial
Controls Numerical Control Systems, 1962 |
| |
8 |
Koh-I-Noor Rapidograph,
Inc., Auto Draw (Kad II), 1980 |
| |
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SERIES
6, PROPOSALS, 1961-1980 |
| 93 |
1 |
Digital Plotter, 1962
|
| |
2 |
Digital Plotter, Fixed
Price Proposal, 1962 |
| |
3 |
Digital Plotter North
American Aviation DES NAC 15, for North American Aviation,
Inc., Bid Proposal, 1962 January 13 |
| |
4 |
Digital Plotter North
American Aviation DES NAC 15, for North American Aviation,
Inc., Bid Proposal, 1962 March 14 |
| |
5 |
Draft Aid, A New Drafting
Concept, System Proposal, 1969 |
| |
6 |
Draft Aid, A New Drafting
Concept, System Description, 1969 |
| |
7 |
Gerber Numerical Control
Sewing Machine, undated |
| |
8 |
Gerber Step and Repeat
Description, undated |
| |
9 |
High Precision Numerical
Controlled Plot and Line Plotting System, 1963 |
| |
10 |
Large Area, High Speed,
Precision Template Router, System Proposals, 1969 |
| 94 |
1 |
Model A-6-12-II, Magnetic
Tape Controlled Digital Plotting System, Proposal No. 2163,
undated |
| |
2 |
Model ALF, Automatic
Line Follower, 1967-1980 |
| |
3 |
Model CINE-650, Film
Projection Data Reduction System, 1963 |
| |
4 |
Model GP-30-DL, X-Y
Point and Line Drawing Digital Plotting System, Proposal No.
2963, undated |
| |
5 |
Series 6000 Systems,
Interface Specifications, 1976 |
| |
6 |
Model 82 Automatic
Electrographic Plotter proposal, 1973 |
| |
7 |
Control System for
a Tape-Controlled Plotter verifier, 1961 |
| |
8 |
Gerber Coordinate
Position Plotter for the Autoplot System, circa 1960s |
| |
9 |
Gerber Model GP-6-DL
X-Y Point and Line Drawing Digital Plotting System, 1963 |
Series 1 :::
Series 2 :::
Series 3 ::: Series
4 ::: Series
5 ::: Series
6 ::: Series 7
::: Series 8
::: Series 9
::: Series 10
::: Series 11
::: Series 12
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