Mainframe Computer Component, X Adder from the SWAC
date: label: date made
content: 1950
name: label: maker
content: National Bureau of Standards
notes: label: Description
content: The SWAC (Standards Western Automatic Computer) was an early stored program electronic computer built by the U.S National Bureau of Standards at the Institute for Numerical Analysis at the University of California Los Angeles. Construction began in 1948, it was dedicated in mid-1950, and it remained in use at UCLA after the INA closed in 1954, finally being turned off in the mid-1960s.
label: Description
content: This x adder component from the machine has a sturdy metal frame, five vacuum tubes, and an array of other components. A tag on one end reads: Technitrol (/) Technitrol Engineering Co. (/) PHILADELPHIA, PA, USA. (/) MOD. 124 SER. 35.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: P.A. Kidwell, "Promoting Computing in the Postwar United States - The Case of UCLA," <I>IEEE Annals of the History of Computing</I>, vol. 45 #1, April-June 2023, pp. 43-52.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Los Angeles
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: National Bureau of Standards
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.0208.06
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0208.06
label: accession number
content: 1983.0208
objectType: label: Object Name
content: mainframe component
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 83 cm x 23 cm x 5 cm; 32 11/16 in x 9 1/16 in x 1 15/16 in