Direct Digital Control Computer
name: label: maker
content: Foxboro Company
label: maker
content: Dow Chemical Company
notes: label: Description
content: The Foxboro Company and The Dow Chemical Company, in 1963, initiated a project to determine the feasibility of Direct Digital Control for a continuous industrial process. In 1966, the trial having proved successful, Dow placed an order for a direct digital control computer. This is that instrument. It was the first direct digital control computer for used for chemical processes, and it remained in service until the end of 1976.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the Foxboro Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.337001
label: catalog number
content: 337001
label: accession number
content: 1979.0186.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Computer, D.D.C.
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: shipping box: 1.83 m x 2.92 m x 1.25 m; 6 ft x 9 9/16 ft x 4 1/8 ft
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1.7 m x 2.75 m x 1 m; 5 9/16 ft x 9 ft x 3 1/4 ft
label: Measurements
content: overall: 72 in x 49 in x 115 in; 182.88 cm x 124.46 cm x 292.1 cm