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Description:

This large metal cabinet is white in front and black on the sides - one side panel is missing. It opens in front.

In the 1960s, IBM engineers designed a machine to store and retrieve engineering graphics, the IBM 2280 film recorder. It sold in conjunction with the IBM 360 computer. Three IBM 2280s sold, one of them to the Chemical Abstracts Service Division of the American Chemical Society in Columbus, Ohio. This is part of that machine, used by Chemical Abstracts from 1968 until early 1974. It was modified by programmers there to perform phototypesetting. Many principles developed with incorporated in later electronic photocomposition equipment.

Reference:

NMAH accession file 314462.

Date Made: 1968

Maker: IBMIBM

Location: Currently not on view

See more items in: Medicine and Science: Computers

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Credit Line: Chemical Abstracts Service

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: CI.336217Accession Number: 314462Catalog Number: 336217

Object Name: Mainframe Component

Measurements: overall: 180 cm x 116.5 cm x 76.5 cm; 70 7/8 in x 45 7/8 in x 30 1/8 in

Metadata Usage: CC0

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-99df-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_764694

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IBM 2280-5002 Film Recorder