(and then this when someone challenged that there was no way that Chrysler had a computer system large enough to store data like that and that it was all on paper that was burned or ruined by a flood
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Quote from autoholic on 12/15/11 at 17:57:22:
Did you guys ever see the IBM computers in those days? They were the size of a small room. The only ones that could afford them were large corporations. They did not reprint the IBM card, it was the master (and a few more printed for various reasons) that was fed into the computer that created the info for things like the BS and FT.
Remember, we are talking about a profit driven company that only keep those records around for warranty purposes and them later maybe for insurance company/law enforcement for thieft recovery.
These records were likely stored in basements and who knows at what point the a particular area was full and a new location was fount to continue with the storage needs as the years went by.
If you think GG had access to aquiring these do you think he would not take the ones for the Max Wedges, A990s, and 67 RO and WO cars too?
I really doubt they still exist in any forum as the actual IBM cards were discarded after they were put on micro phish and if they had a new format for storing the info you can bet that they discarded these IBM cards as well. What would be the sence in transfering the info if they were not trying to free up room and make it easier to access?
I think GGs "access" was limited to written corrospondance and what was available for production numbers that he has spoken about in the very books created from the info given. If he has had them all these years we would know about it. Too hard to keep a secret like that for this long especially when making your living the way he does.
Huh???? Darryl do you really think that time in the '60's was the stone age? Do you think they managed an assembly plant of this size by people alone and not one computer? Do you really think that with an office building of this size attached to an assembly plant the size of Lynch Road that they didn't have room for computers? How did they keep track of JIT orders and inventory and car orders and broadcast sheets and supplies and..... read the post above where Chrysler in 1957 was the first auto manufacture to use a certain TYPE of computer not just a COMPUTER for inventory control. IT WASN'T THE STONE AGE BACK THEN!
MikeR 
