Mainframe Computer Component, Capacitor Bank Delay Line
Mainframe Computer Component, Capacitor Bank Delay Line
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- Description
- This metal frame contains a cylindrical metal rod with nineteen red and orange tiles soldered to it. The tiles each have an array of six colored circles on them.
- The object is associated with Margaret Fox. May come from the SEAC computer.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- mainframe computer component
- date made
- 1955
- place made
- United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- Physical Description
- plastic (capacitors material)
- metal (connectors, frame material)
- paper (tag material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1.9 cm x 24.6 cm x 3 cm; 3/4 in x 9 11/16 in x 1 3/16 in
- ID Number
- 2013.3034.08
- catalog number
- 2013.3034.08
- nonaccession number
- 2013.3034
- Credit Line
- Gift of Vicki Stauffacher
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Computers
- Computers & Business Machines
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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