Obscure Computers: The Bendix G-15

The Bendix G-15, later marketed as the Control Data G-15 after a merger, was one of the first small computers to be sold in quantity in the late 1950s. It found its greatest acceptance in civil engineering applications in the US. It was also one of the first systems that did not demand a raised floor. Here I have gathered various links to the remaining few in existance, as well as my own documents and memories.

Known examples

The documentation is kind of sparse, so there's some guesswork here.

I seem to recall Serial Number 1 having been donated to the Smithsonian Museum, but a search of their archives does not return a result.
However, the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, has one on display. (I have seen it in person and was adult enough not to go fiddle with it.)
There is one that used to be in the private collection of Paul R. Pierce. It has now been donated to the CHM as well. He has also scanned a number of manuals.
VCF Mid-Atlantic (fomerly MARCH, the MidAtlantic Retro Computing Hobbyists) now has a complete example as well (see the picture on Evan Koblentz's site). (Watch out, that's a large JPG!) They have apparently had it on display at one of the Vintage Computer Festival MidWest shows.
There used to be one in Australia.

Technical Documentation on bitsavers

A bitsavers mirror site. All the software and hardware scans are all thrown in together.

Technical Documentation in Mark Linimon's collection

An unused coding form.
a picture of the factory. I'm sorry, but I don't know the credit for this one.
The Computer History Museum exhibit. IIRC this is my godson Cory Cook in the picture -- many years ago!. (Credit probably TW Cook.)
A directory of schematics.
A directory of miscellaneous software, including the Programmer's Reference sheet.
A directory of Technical Memos (or, at least, the ones I preserved.)
A directory of miscellaneous technical stuff.
A directory containing a few Technical Manual scans. When I first did the scans I only included the Errata Sheets, apparently intending to do the whole manual later. (I still have it.)

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