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  1. Ref Factory 209 making "accounting machines" pre-war. IBM, which made electro-mechanical tabulating machines - but also tripewriters, punch ib-punch out time clocks, school clocks, even scoreboards for gyms and sports fields. During WW2m it built M1 carbines and M191A2 BAR's at "the mother ship" in Endicott and brand new Plant No 4 in Poughkeepsie. Any profits IBM made on these contracts was put into a fund for the survivors of ex-IBM employees killed while serving in the military during the war. Post war, a geatly expanded became the heart of the IBM mainframe empire
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