Data Packs for Computer Data Storage
date: label: date made
content: c 1987
name: label: maker
content: Wang Laboratories
label: maker
content: Control Data
notes: label: Description
content: Two plastic data packs, one in a blue plastic case and from Control Data, the other in a translucent black plastic case and from WANG. As the name data pack suggests, the objects are layered groupings of hard disk platters that are coated with a magnetic medium for data storage.. Both cases hold three platters. The brown one is marked: 2/18/87. This is the source of the date listed.
label: Description
content: According to a note in the files, these diskpaks were used in a Wang minicomputer used at the Smithsonian's Computer Services Center.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Jon Eklund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.0132.36
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0132.36
label: accession number
content: 2006.0132
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Data Packs
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/2 in x 9 3/4 in x 2 in; 24.13 cm x 24.765 cm x 5.08 cm