Minicomputer Component, AMPEX Magnetic Tape for the CDC 160
date: label: date made
content: ca 1965
name: label: maker
content: Ampex Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: This relatively small tape fits in a cardboard sleeve which in turn slides into a paper container. The sleeve is marked: A (/) AMPEX. The edge of the sleeve is marked: AMPEX INSTRUMENTATION. A tag on the sleeve reads: CATALOG NO: (/) C 2254. The tape was received with a CDC 160 minicomputer. Control Data introduced the CDC 160 in 1960, following the design of Seymour Cray. According to the accession file, the example in the Smithsonian collections was the first produced. The machine was discarded in 1974. Hence the rough date of 1965 assigned to various components.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Redwood City
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Department of Defense
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.3004.09
label: catalog number
content: 1983.3004.09
label: nonaccession number
content: 1983.3004
objectType: label: Object Name
content: computer component
label: Object Name
content: minicomputer component
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2.8 cm x 28 cm x 28 cm; 1 1/8 in x 11 in x 11 in