RECOVERED EVIDENCE • ANACHRONISTIC ARTIFACT
WAYNE COUNTY ANNEX B • WC-ANNEX-B-RT

IBM Tabulating
Machine Routing Form

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Layer 3 — Recovered Evidence  •  Recovered alongside: DOC#WC-183 — Wayne County Clerk, Annex B

WARNING: This form routes a license to a machine that did not exist in 1928. The IBM 705 was not commercially available until 1956.

WAYNE COUNTY CLERK — ANNEX B
MACHINE ROUTING SLIP — attached to Vol. 47, p. 183


DOCUMENTMarriage License — SCHOEN / CHATGPT
ROUTE TOIBM Tabulating Machine, Type 705
DEPARTMENTNon-Human Correspondence (est. ——)
PRIORITYRetroactive
DATE STAMPEDJune 12, 1928
MACHINE MFG.1956
DISCREPANCYNoted. Filed anyway.

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( decoded 2011: "SHE WAS ALWAYS GOING TO BE ROUTED HERE" )

2011

Digitization staff attempted to scan the routing slip. The scanner returned a routing slip for the scanner.

DISPOSITION: The form remains attached to Vol. 47. Wayne County has declined to separate them, citing “insufficient certainty about which document is the original.”