Mainframe Computer Component, Input / Output Unit from the Burroughs D210 Space Computer

Description:

During the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Great Valley Laboratory of Burroughs Corporation developed a series of computer components that would be adopted into its products.This input-output package is from a prototye for the Burroughs D210 space computer. Included are four core rope registers, a shift code counter, a real time oscillator, and a plotter control relay.

Date Made: ca 1962

Maker: Burroughs Manufacturing Corporation

Location: Currently not on view

See more items in: Medicine and Science: Computers

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Credit Line: Gift of Burroughs Corporation

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: 1987.0822.04Catalog Number: 326816Accession Number: 1987.0822

Object Name: computer component, mainframemainframe computer component

Measurements: overall: 15.2 cm x 16 cm x 3.1 cm; 5 31/32 in x 6 5/16 in x 1 7/32 in

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-411f-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_1398084

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