Disc Drive for Digital Orrery
name: label: maker
content: Hewlett-Packard Company
notes: label: Description
content: The Digital Orrery is a parallel processor that was designed to compute the parameters of orbital mechanics quickly and correctly, and that was used to compute the orbit of Pluto over the next 845 million years. Gerald Jay Sussman (b. 1947), a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at M.I.T., built the Digital Orrery during a sabbatical at Stanford University.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Massachusetts Institute of Technology through Earl Fuller
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0418.01
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0418.01
label: accession number
content: 1991.0418
label: model number
content: 7912 P
label: serial number
content: 2311A04414
label: collector/donor number
content: MIT-0165015
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Orrery, Disc Drive
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 72 cm x 74 cm x 35.6 cm; 28 11/32 in x 29 1/8 in x 14 1/32 in