This is a collection of parts from the Burroughs Athena computer commissioned by the U.S. Air Force and built by Remington Rand Univac. This computer was primarily for missile guidance and ran synchronized with an online guidance system.Each component is made up of an array of capacitors between circuit boards. It may be part of a switch or the memory.
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